Bachelor of Information Technology

As our IT degree includes a specialisation pathway, you may go on to use your specialist knowledge and information technology skills in industries such as health, education, business, climate science and beyond.

The ‘next big thing’ might be your thing

Information Technology (IT) delivers the skills needed to succeed in an interconnected society. From delivering services and products, analysing information, to building healthy and connected societies through mobile and web applications, IT is the language of now and the future!

IT is all about the application of technology to solve business, organisational, or societial problems. We prepare graduates to be technically savvy, creative, and flexible. Our information technology degree is designed to meet industry's evolving IT needs. Develop your skills in programming, AI, cyber security, and cloud computing.

Career opportunities

• Enjoy great employment prospects and go on to work in dynamic sectors at the forefront of discovery and innovation. You could work across almost every industry and not-for-profit organisation. You could go on to work for organisations like Google, Amazon, Facebook or Apple.
• You may go on to use your specialist knowledge and skills in industries such as health, education, business, climate science and beyond.
• Newcastle is part of a highly engaged start-up community, and our students are able to utilise their proximity to undertake work-integrated-learning with these organisations.

Professional outcomes:

• Mobile App Designer
• Software Developer
• Games Designer
• IT Analyst
• IT Project Manager
• Infrastructure Business Analyst

Students enrolled in this degree are encouraged to apply for the Data and Digital Cadet Programs, delivered on campus in collaboration with The Australian Public Service (APS).

Through this program, you can gain valuable industry experience while completing your studies. APS supports you while you obtain your degree, offering a study allowance each semester. Upon program completion, successful students will be offered an ongoing full-time job with the organisation.

Complete one of our industry-aligned majors:

• ICT Developer: focuses on learning the skills needed to develop new systems and apps.
• ICT Professional: focuses on the skills needed to secure, integrate, deploy, and manage ICT technologies

Develop core skills within information technology, such as building software that uses complex databases and sophisticated web interfaces suitable for a whole range of applications – from the corporate office to the mobile phone. You will study courses in:

• Computing fundamentals
• Web technologies
• Programming
• Databases and information management
• Applied artificial intelligence
• Foundations of information systems
• Human computer interaction
• Systems analysis and design
• Systems and network administration
• Business analysis
• Project management

Design your studies to suit your aspirations: uniquely, our IT degree includes a specialisation pathway – pick four courses from education and become an ICT Trainer, or four courses from health to hone your ICT skills for e-health systems! From business to climate science, criminology to animation – take your IT skills in the direction you choose.

Core
Complete the following core courses to fulfil the requirements of this program.

• COMP1010 Computing Fundamentals
• COMP1140 Database and Information Management
• COMP3851A Computing and Information Sciences Work Integrated Learning Part A
• COMP3851B Computing and Information Sciences Work Integrated Learning Part B
• INFT1060 Cybersecurity Fundamentals
• INFT2031 Systems and Network Administration
• INFT2060 Applied Artificial Intelligence
• INFT2150 Business Analysis
• INFT3100 Project Management
• INFT3800 Professional Practice in IT
• SENG1050 Web Technologies
• SENG1110 Object Oriented Programming
• SENG2130 Systems Analysis and Design
• SENG2260 Human-Computer Interaction

Majors
ICT Developer
Compulsory 

• EBUS3050 The Digital Economy
• INFT2051 Mobile Application Programming
• INFT3050 Web Programming
• INFT3950 Games Design
• MATH1510 Discrete Mathematics
• SENG1120 Data Structures

Career-ready placements

• Students have the opportunity to undertake industry placement. This career-ready placement opportunity allows students to gain hands-on experience in the industry, creating graduates who are prepared for immediate and productive employment.
• You will work with a team of students to complete a major IT project, with the opportunity to find and develop a project with an industry partner.