Bachelor of Information Technology

What is this course about?

CSU's Bachelor of Information Technology is designed to equip graduates with the skills and attributes required to be effective and efficient information technology professionals.

Information is the new global currency. It allows citizens to make informed decisions, provides business with its competitive advantage, and creates the opportunity to develop new knowledge and insights. The amount of new information (including text, video and audio) that is generated daily is in the order of three exabytes, or one billion billion bytes. The demand for highly-skilled knowledge workers to process, manipulate and analyse this ever-growing mountain of information has never been greater. The Bachelor of Information Technology will provide you with the essential skills to take your place as a knowledge worker in the information technology industry.

The Bachelor of Information Technology core component covers principles fundamental to the information systems and computing discipline such as databases, data communications, systems analysis and design, information security and project work, plus emerging directions that prepare students to undertake an IT major or specialisation from a specified list.

International students may study the Bachelor of Information Technology through CSU regional campuses or the CSU Study Centre Sydney or Melbourne. An intake in Session 3 is available for Study Centres only.

Not all majors are available for full-time on campus study at all campuses. Please check with the School once you have received an offer.

Why study this degree?

As with all our courses, the Bachelor of Information Technology is designed and delivered with study flexibility in mind. Our students choose between full-time and part-time study options to fit in with work and lifestyle commitments. You could choose to study one subject in an academic session or, with approval, fast-track degree completion by undertaking four subjects per session.

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Credit / Pathways

This course has articulation agreements with Study Group and North Sydney Institute. Credit may be granted for relevant study at other universities or educational institutions.

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Course Structure

The course structure consists of a core of 10 subjects, a major of eight subjects and six free electives.

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Graduation Requirements

To graduate students must complete 192 points (the equivalent of 24 standard subjects).

For students completing the TAFE integrated program, this comprises the credit package of 128 points for Albury-Wodonga TAFE study completed concurrently and 64 points completed during enrollment in the bachelor degree.

Academic expectations

For each 8 point subject at CSU, students should normally expect to spend between 140-160 hours engaged in the specified learning and assessment activities (such as attending lectures or residential schools, assigned readings, tutorial assistance, individual or group research/study, forum activity, workplace learning, assignments or examinations). The student workload for some subjects may vary from these norms as a result of approved course design.

Students will be assessed on the basis of completed assignments, examinations, workplace learning, or other methods as outlined in specific subject outlines.

Where applicable, students are responsible for travel and accommodation costs involved in workplace learning experiences, or attending residential schools (distance education students).

Expectations relating to academic, workplace learning, time and cost requirements for specific subjects are provided in the subject abstracts and in course materials.