The Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology provides students with the knowledge and skills to be an information and communication technology professional, with particular skills in a chosen area.

The course focuses on computer and network configurations, web and application programming, and database design and maintenance. You'll also have the opportunity to specialise in a particular aspect of ICT-related work - making it ideal for those seeking an ICT course with flexible outcomes.

Build up your CV with real industry experience while you study through our Work Integrated Learning programs, which are a guaranteed part of all our bachelor degrees and can include placements, internships or industry-linked projects. In this degree, you'll apply your learning in six projects in professionally focused, industry-linked projects.

Course description

The Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology is a flexible course which provides students with the opportunity to study a range of majors including software technology, network technology, systems management, systems analysis and business systems. The course’s emphasis is on knowledge and skills needed for a wide variety of employment positions in ICT. Many of the core units are common across the majors allowing students some options to change majors during their first year with minimal additional units. Each of the majors provides students with an opportunity to study a range of co-majors, minors and ICT electives to complement or extend their major studies. The choice of co-majors and minors include options from all disciplines across Swinburne. The acquired skills and knowledge are consolidated both in a project subject in the final semester of the program and an optional industry based learning year.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (BICT) will be exposed to curriculum and learning activities that will develop these attributes, interpreted within an ICT context, as well as those generic attributes that form a requirement of the Australian Computer Society.