Undergraduate course information
UTS: Information Technology offers undergraduate degrees in information technology and a number of combined degrees with business, international studies, law and mathematics. IT majors are offered in Business Information Systems Management, Enterprise Systems Development, Internetworking and Applications, and Computing and Data Analytics. The same four areas are also offered as sub-majors with an additional sub-major in Computer Graphics and Animation.
Industry Partnering Unit
The Industry Partnering Unit (IPU) assists students in their preparation to obtain an Industrial Training position as part of the Diploma in Information Technology Professional Practice. The staff of the IPU maintain contacts with various organisations that offer IT positions. Students seeking industrial training must attend the industrial training information session held in May each year and register in the semester preceding their intended period of industrial training.
It is the student's responsibility to keep all information up to date, including the start and finish dates of their industrial training. IPU maintains a database which provides information to students on available industrial training jobs.
Undergraduate progression rules
Undergraduate students who do not maintain the required minimum level of progress may be excluded from a course and have their enrolment withdrawn. The minimum rate of progress is achievement of 50 per cent of the credit points for which a student has been enrolled in since the beginning of that course. In addition, students are bound by the Rules of the University and are advised to refer to them.
Grading of awards
The cut-off points for grading are fixed and common across all undergraduate degrees as follows.
Students who have completed the required subjects and credit points determined for each award qualify to graduate at pass level.
Qualification for graded awards is based on the weighted average mark calculated for all graded subjects completed, including electives. Ungraded pass/fail subjects, including electives taken while on exchange and exemptions granted as recognised prior learning, are not included in the calculation. All failures are included in the calculation. For a degree with distinction, the weighted average mark must be greater than or equal to 75. For a degree with credit, the weighted average mark must be greater than or equal to 65 and less than 75.
The grading of Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Technology is as follows.
Students who have completed the required subjects and credit points (48cp) determined for the award qualify for third class honours.
Qualification above third class honours is based on the weighted average mark calculated for all graded subjects completed, including electives. Ungraded pass/fail subjects and exemptions granted as recognised prior learning are not included in the calculation. All failures are included in the calculation.
- First class honours: the weighted average mark must be greater than or equal to 85.
- Second class honours (division 1): the weighted average mark must be greater than or equal to 75 and less than 85.
- Second class honours (division 2): the weighted average mark must be greater than or equal to 65 and less than 75.
