This course is designed for graduates from an IT-related discipline. You’ll learn new applied skills that increase your knowledge of IT and you’ll benefit from an emphasis on professional practice, effective communication, and project management using technical and non-technical means.

You can also select a unit on knowledge management, wireless data communication or data science, depending on your area of focus or interest.

Upon successful completion of this course, you may continue for a further semester and complete the Graduate Diploma in Information Technology Management.

5 reasons to study a Graduate Certificate in Information Technology at Murdoch

• Make use of our brand new IT Innovation Hub, a cutting-edge learning teaching and research facility fitted out with the latest mixed and augmented reality equipment, operational data centre and high performance computing capabilities.
• This course has been designed in collaboration with industry partners with an emphasis on effective communication and the development of solutions to complex real world IT problems.
• Learn from our teaching and research staff who are forward thinking IT professionals who are highly active in generating policy and change within industry.
• Study on your own terms – we offer flexible study arrangements allowing you to upskill whilst you’re still earning so you can study full-time or part-time to suit your circumstances. (If you’re an international student you’ll need to study full-time)
• Take advantage of free workshops and seminars to help you with writing, statistics and analysing data, ethics, how to run surveys and research as a postgraduate student.

Develop your skills

Build essential skills and knowledge to meet your career or study goals. Topics you’ll cover include:

• local area network design and implementation
• project management
• programming
• foundations of data science
• technical writing.

After completing the Graduate Certificate in Information Technology you’ll be able to pursue a variety of IT related careers, either as an IT practitioner or in supervisory and advisory roles within a range of public and private organisations. Examples of the types of businesses or organisations you could pursue a career in are network service providers, banking, finance, government and the military.

Careers could include:

• Information Technology Project Manager
• Digital Transformation Officer
• Technology Services Officer
• Programmer.