Graduate Diploma of Information Technology

at Central Queensland University

Year 1 - Term 1

Students must complete the following compulsory units:

• Project Management Concepts    

• Information Systems Analysis and Design    

• Introduction to Programming    

• ICT Services Management    

Year 1 - Term 2

Students must complete the following compulsory units:

• Professional Skills in Information Communication Technology    

• Database Design and Development    

Year 1 - Term 2

Students must complete 1 from the following units:

• Data Structures and Algorithms    

• Network Routing and Switching    

• Responsive Web Design

To be eligible for entry into this course, applicants must have:

• A completed Bachelor degree in any discipline from an Australian University or college, or equivalent; or

• A completed CQUniversity Graduate Certificate in Information Systems, or equivalent; or

• A completed CQUniversity Graduate Certificate in Information Technology, or equivalent.

English Language Proficiency Requirements:

If you were not born in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa or United States of America, you are required to meet the English Language Proficiency requirements set by the University.

Applicants are required to provide evidence of completion of:

• a secondary qualification (Year 11 or 12, or equivalent), or

• Bachelor level qualification study for a period of at least 2 years full time with a minimum overall GPA 4.0 
  completed within Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa, Ireland or United States of America.

If you do not satisfy any of the above, you will need to undertake an English language proficiency test and achieve the following scores:

• An International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic) overall band score of at least 6.0 with a minimum 5.5 in each subset; or

• Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) - Requires 550 or better overall and minimum TWE score of 4.5 (Paper Based Test), or 75 or better overall and no score less than 17 (Internet Based Test); or

• Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) - Requires an overall score of 54 with no sub-score less than 46; or

• An Occupational English Test with Grades A or B only in each of the four components.

Tuition Fees

Fees for the whole year is $33,990

On completing a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology you are able to progress to the masters level course and will have increased managerial abilities boosting your IT career opportunities in roles including:

• database administrator

• developer programmer

• ICT customer support officer

• ICT support technician

• network administrator

• project management support officer

• web developer.