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.

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.

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. You will study courses in:

• Computing fundamentals
• Web technologies
• Programming
• Databases and information management
• 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.

2024 Program Handbook

The courses shown above are a guide, and don't reflect the exact year-by-year structure of the program, you should always refer to the program handbook for details of the complete program structure, course requirements and availability.

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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

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC).

TOEFL paper-based test score of 500; TOEFL internet based score of 60; IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0; PTE GSE score of 50; Cambridge English: Advanced score of 52.