OVERVIEW

Benefit from vast opportunities to gain real-world experience and the support of our experienced course leaders to kickstart your IT career with our Bachelor of Information Technology. In this highly practical degree, you will build industry-relevant skills sought-after by employers by completing an internship or capstone project. Designed in consultation with industry and accredited by the Australian Computer Society, you will have the choice to major in application development, business analysis, or cyber security. Tailor your studies even further with a comprehensive choice of minors, designed to provide depth in a complementary discipline and reflecting emerging fields of IT to suit your career goals.

The Bachelor of Information Technology is a highly practical degree that will equip you with a broad foundation of IT knowledge and skills and embeds work-integrated learning opportunities to prepare you for a successful career in the information technology (IT) industry. Designed with input from our industry partners, benefit from innovative, up-to-date and industry-relevant units, as well as in-built practical experiences.

During your studies, your core units will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of key areas in IT and computer-based systems. From your second term, you will begin to study units from your chosen major — Application Development, Business Analysis or Cyber Security.

Choose a minor option to tailor your studies, selecting from a broad range of IT applications reflecting emerging fields and industry demands within the IT sector. Minors include:

• Agile business analysis

• Animation and motion graphics

• Emerging technologies

• Entrepreneurship

• Full stack development

• ICT change management

• Interactive media development

• Law, innovation and startups

• Mathematics and statistics

• Network security

Your studies culminate in a project or internship in your final year. If you choose the capstone project unit, you will work with other students as a team requiring the production of project management artefacts typically required of a small-scale commercial project appropriate to your major. Alternatively, you may wish to apply for an internship, which can be undertaken instead of completing the project.

Study experience

• Authentic Learning Experiences

• Industry Accredited

• Industry Relevant

• Internships

• Real-world Learning FacilitieS

• Seamless Pathways

Career Opportunities

On completion of the Bachelor of Information Technology you will be qualified to work in both public and private sectors and in roles such as:

• application programmer

• analyst programmer

• database administrator

• ICT customer support technician

• ICT support engineer

• ICT support technician

• information technology project manager

• network administrator

• security analyst

• systems administrator

• systems analyst

• web developer.

COURSE STRUCTURE

You are required to complete a total of 23 units including eight core units, seven major units, four minor units, plus four electives.