Undergraduate · Information Technology
Bachelor of Information Technology
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
About this program
This is the entry-level computing degree UniSQ builds its whole postgraduate IT pipeline around. Finish it and the university explicitly points graduates toward its Master of Information Technology, Master of Data Science, or Master of Cyber Security as the next step, which tells you something about how the undergraduate course is structured: broad enough in first year to let students discover which specialisation actually interests them, then increasingly focused from second year on.
Majors run through the usual spread for a modern IT degree, including software development, cyber security, networking, data science and analytics, and programming-heavy units are backed by UniSQ's long-running remote/online lab infrastructure, the same systems that support its distance engineering cohort, so external students aren't working with a lesser version of the practical content.
A professional placement or capstone project unit near the end of the course gives students something concrete to point to in job interviews beyond a transcript, and the degree's accreditation alignment with the Australian Computer Society matters for students planning to chase ACS-recognised professional status after graduation.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
3 terms of coursework
- Year 1: Programming fundamentals, computer systems, database fundamentals, web technologies, IT professional practice
- Year 2: Major core units (software development, cyber security, networking, or data science strand), systems analysis and design, data structures and algorithms
- Year 3: Advanced major electives, IT project management, capstone IT project or industry placement, emerging technologies elective
Admissions
Completion of Year 12 or equivalent, ATAR of approximately 60-65 or equivalent; no specific prerequisite subjects, though Mathematics is recommended.