Undergraduate · Information Technology
Bachelor of Information Technology
University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia
About this program
UC's Bachelor of Information Technology sits inside the Faculty of Science and Technology and lets students specialise in one of four areas: Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things, Cybersecurity and System Administration, Data Science, or Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Only three majors total (core, specialist and breadth) can be completed across the degree, which keeps the structure from sprawling into an unfocused generalist qualification.
Students take at least 24 credit points as a breadth major, minor or set of individual units drawn from outside IT altogether, a deliberate design choice that pushes technical students into some contact with other disciplines rather than three years of pure computing units.
Graduates with a strong GPA can progress directly into a one-year Honours program in the ITS discipline, useful for anyone eyeing research or a PhD pathway in cybersecurity, data science or AI rather than heading straight into industry.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
4 terms of coursework
- Year 1: Introduction to Programming
- Computer Systems Fundamentals
- Database Systems
- Networking Fundamentals
- Web Technologies
- Discrete Mathematics for Computing
- Year 2: Data Structures and Algorithms
- Systems Analysis and Design
- Operating Systems
- specialist major units (Cloud/IoT, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or Robotics/AI stream)
- breadth units
- Year 3: Advanced specialist major units
- IT Project Management
- Professional and Ethical Issues in IT
- capstone IT project
- breadth major or minor units
- Optional: Honours year (research thesis) for eligible high-GPA graduates
Admissions
ATAR of approximately 65-70 (or equivalent); completion of a recognised secondary qualification.