Information Technology (Professional Practice) Federation University Australia

Overview

The Bachelor of Information Technology (Professional Practice) at Federation University Australia  is Federation's premier co-operative degree, with a long history of providing students with successful placements with key industry partners including IBM®, and more recently Kyndryl and Westpac.

Key features

Choose your study path, including subjects such as Mainframe (a specialised area only offered by a select number of universities worldwide), Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Business Analysis, Cybersecurity, and Software Engineering.

Through the degree you'll also become job-ready through our career development units, and complete 1600 hours of paid industry placement through one of our selected industry partners.

Career opportunities

• Database manager

• Games programmer

• Information security

• IT project manager

• Multimedia developer

• Network manager

• Programmer

• Software engineer

• Web developer

The Bachelor of Information Technology (Professional Practice) has been developed in conjunction with IBM® to produce graduates who have an appreciation of the culture of work as an entrepreneur and business IT professional.

Graduates have a significant competitive advantage, having gained significant industry experience and an appreciation of the culture of work as an IT professional. 

You will have a wide variety of career opportunities in small, medium and large businesses, industry and government. 

Upon completion, you will graduate with one year's work experience, and the opportunity to apply for a position at IBM.

Those students undertaking the Enterprise Computing stream may also be in a position to apply for graduate positions with alternative corporate employers based on completed work experience summer placements.