Information Technology Degrees Online

Entry requirements

You must have passed the CCNA award and have a certificate registration number with Cisco. If English is a second language, you should have a minimum IELTS score of 5.5 with all components 5.0 or above, or TOEFL score of 550 with 4 in TWE (Test of Written English) or 213 in the computer-based test (essay rating 4). The course also requires familiarity with the use of the internet along with some basic keyboard and office style applications.

Entry requirements

The minimum entry requirement is normally a second-class Honours Degree in a related subject such as computing, computing and information systems or business information technology. Applicants with extensive industrial experience and relevant skills may also be considered. The minimum level of information systems development skills required includes:
experience of developing applications with an object-oriented programming language
experience of developing web applications with HTML
experience of using an object-oriented analysis and design method
familiarity with the concepts of human-computer interface theory
an understanding of fundamental concepts in telecommunications and computing, including the nature of digital information and communication.

Candidates may be interviewed at the discretion of the department.

Information systems are mechanisms consciously designed help people achieve their goals. The purpose of information systems design is to achieve a good fit between the social needs and technical aspects of any purposeful human activity. Good designs are ‘transparent’; people don’t see the system rather the system becomes an extension of the user, enhancing them by making their tasks easier, quicker and more accurate and never getting in the way. Exceptional designs are also elegant and life enhancing.

Becoming a master of information systems design is a process that starts in the first year through developing a familiarity of the basic tools with which systems are built and an understanding of the wider context of business and commercial organisations that they serve.

At level two competences in tool use is increased through techniques of analysis and design and deepened with practice in detailed database design. While understanding of context is focused through evaluating software development tools and management information systems.

By the time they encounter the more advanced methods of information management and designing decision support systems at level 4 the apprentice systems designer is reaching journeyman status and ready to start practicing ‘in the real world’ a process that they engage in extensively through their final year project.

The M.Tech program enables graduates to have a broad technical understanding of current and emerging technologies in the IT field, a familiarity with systems engineering concepts, and a solid foundation in the technological basis of the Internet. They will also have a firm grasp of current and future effects of the convergence of computer systems and telecommunication systems technologies. Electives offered include Grid Computing, Soft Computing and Computer Forensics. The Department is working on the development of a new graduate program that specializes in Information Security and Computer Forensics.

Master in Computer System Structure at Chongqing University of Post & Telecommunications China

The discipline is authorized with a master program in 2005 by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and is one of the first key provincial and ministerial disciplines approved by Chongqing Municipality. It aims to train people with a solid theoretical foundation of computer science and technology, a good master of expertise in software, hardware, computer system structure, computer network and application technology, a familiarity with computer hardware and software environment and tools, an ability to do theoretical researches and their applications such as doing high-performance computing of computer systems especially in computer networks and network environment and resources management

Master in Computer Software and Theory at Chongqing University of Post & Telecommunications China

The master program was authorized in 2005 by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and is one of the first key provincial and ministerial disciplines approved by Chongqing Municipality. It aims to train people with a solid theoretical foundation of computer science and technology, a master of expertise in software, hardware, computer system structure, computer network and application technology, a familiarity with computer hardware and software environment and tools, an ability to do theoretical researches and their applications such as doing high-performance computing of computer systems especially in computer networks and network environment and resources management

The educational goal of our department is to cultivate specialists who possess the capability in the integration of information technology and business management. Our departmental curriculum abapts knowledge Management (KM) as the care which bases on the basic MIS and Mathematics programmed courses to develop three main axes : software Design and Management, Database Management, and Enterprise Resourees Management (EPR) program Following this designed curriculum, the students would be expected to acquire learning on both theories and practices through a variety of courses. We do believe that the students are usually assisted in practices to improve their familiarity with software and hardware and to enhance their capability for integrated designs after class lectures.

The MSc Information Systems course aims to equip students to work professionally within an information systems environment. In particular, the course aims to develop reflective academic skills and provide technical knowledge and skills associated with the development and management of information systems and related software and equipment.

It is intended for those with non-computing qualifications who now wish to enter the field of computing and so no prior experience of computer programming or systems analysis is assumed. However, familiarity with a range of computer software (word processing, spreadsheets, etc.) and the use of the Internet is presumed.

Basic computer skills are important in the library and information service field. Many courses in the SLIS program assume that students possess familiarity with at least one operating system, one commercial word processor, one common commercial spreadsheet, one web browser, and have the ability to use electronic mail and to search an online library catalog or bibliographic database at a basic level.

Up to six semester hours of graduate credit from other universities may be considered for transfer toward the MLIS degree. A student requesting transfer credit must have been enrolled in the graduate school from which the credit is to be transferred. Up to 12 graduate semester hours of credit earned from within the LSU System, but outside the SLIS, may be considered for application toward the MLIS degree. In either case, the hours must be relevant to library and information science, recommended by the student’s major professor, and approved by the dean of the Graduate School. The work must have been taken for graduate residence credit and must have been part of an otherwise satisfactory graduate program. Further, Graduate School policy states that no course work older than five years from other schools may be accepted as transfer credit. To petition for acceptance of transfer credit, the student must have completed at least nine hours of graduate residence credit at LSU. No credit will be transferred for courses completed with a grade of “C” or below, or unsatisfactory, or the equivalent.