1st for employability

Our graduates are ranked 1st in Australia and 4th globally for employability by the 2020 QS Graduate Employability Rankings

The Bachelor of Advanced Computing is designed with your computing career in mind. This provisionally accredited degree by the Australian Computer Society will develop practical and theoretical skills across the computing, information technology and business transformation industries.

As an advanced computing student, you will learn from leaders in the field. First year covers the core skills required to become a computing professional before you specialise in a major that aligns with your preferred career pathway: computer science, information systems, software development or computational data science.

You can combine your computing skills with a second major from over 100 study areas including music, commerce, science and the arts, and develop the well-rounded perspective highly valued by employers.

Computer Science

A major in Computer Science gives you the knowledge and skills needed to innovate in information technology, and create fundamentally new IT solutions to today's challenges. Covering the key concepts of computation, you will learn the principles and techniques needed to solve tasks efficiently with computation, and to express those solutions in software. Discover how computation can be modeled and how to reason about the limits of what computation can achieve.

In your third year, you will complete a Computer Science Project which gives you the opportunity to integrate and apply the knowledge and skills acquired in previous units in the context of designing and building computing solutions for a diverse application problem. Working in a group for an external client and with academic supervision, students carry out the full range of activities including requirements capture, analysis and design, coding, testing and documentation. This exciting unit allows you to use agile software methodology and make use of professional tools for the management of this project.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

• Computer programmer
• Computer system administrator
• Consultancy
• Information services management
• Systems analyst
• Software engineer
• Web development and management
• Big data developer
• Information security analyst
• Data scientist
• Network and database administrator
• Chief technology officer
• Health field
• Banking and finance field
• Government and defence
• Retail
• Startups

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

This course is provisionally accredited by the Australian Computer Society.