C06089v2 Graduate Diploma in Professional Information Technology

Overview

This course enables students to gain the basic and advanced level knowledge required of a full IT professional. It also allows students to gain more in-depth knowledge in a specialised area.

Career options

Career options include database manager, information manager, information officer, programmer analyst or systems analyst.

Articulation

Additional admission requirements

Local students

Direct entry to this course is based on one of the following:

• a minimum qualification equivalent to a Bachelor's degree from a recognised Australian university and little or no formal IT education or experience, or
• successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Information Technology as a Stream 1 entrant with no failures in any individual subject.

Transfer from the Graduate Certificate in Information Technology is based on successful completion of at least two subjects in the Graduate Certificate with no failures in any individual subject.

International students

Applicants must hold a recognised Bachelor's degree in any discipline with a good academic performance throughout the course.

Additional recognition of prior learning

Up to 24 credit points of core subjects may be exempted. In special circumstances, students may be granted exemption for one additional core subject but only on the basis that an extra elective subject is undertaken in its place.

For students articulating into this course from the Graduate Certificate in Information Technology, exemptions are only granted for core subjects undertaken in the Graduate Certificate.

Course duration and attendance

The Graduate Diploma in Professional IT is offered on a one-and-a-half-year, full-time, or three-year, part-time, basis.

Course structure

The Graduate Diploma in Professional Information Technology totals 72 credit points of study and consists of eight core subjects and 24 credit points of elective subjects selected from a defined list. Students enrolled in this course must complete the course requirements for the Graduate Diploma in IT before commencing their third semester of study.

Course completion requirements

Course program

The following example shows a full-time program for the third semester.

Note: subjects listed as electives are only offered in a particular semester (or year) if there is sufficient demand and the Faculty has the necessary resources.

Professional recognition

Australian Computer Society

Graduates are eligible for professional-level membership.

Other information

Further information is available from the Building 10 Student Centre on: