The Department of Information Science is part of the School of Information Technology (SIT) that also includes the departments of Informatics and Computer Science. SIT is one of four schools in EBIT (the Faculty of Engineering, the Building Environment and Information Technology): the School of Engineering, the School for the Built Environment, the School of Information Technology and the Graduate School of Technology Management.

The Department of Information Science offers three main programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level: Information Science, Multimedia and Publishing.