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Overview
- Develop advanced knowledge, and problem-solving and conceptual skills in a combination of research and advanced coursework units.
- Gain skills and techniques for later postgraduate research and professional career progression.
- Opportunity to enter the doctoral program.
- Complete in 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time.
| QUT course code | IT28 |
| Attendance | Part-time or Full-time |
| Course duration | 1 year full-time
2 years part-time |
| Start month | 2013 February, July |
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On campus
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| CRICOS code | 017323G |
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Details
If you have an inquiring mind, take your passion further: extend your studies with an honours research program in your chosen field.
Overview
Through a combination of research and advanced coursework units, you can pursue specialised studies in your particular area of interest in science and technology. An honours degree builds on your undergraduate degree studies, providing further depth of knowledge and analytical skills you can apply throughout your career. It offers opportunities to cultivate research and development skills and to work on cutting-edge technology, and provides access to specialist facilities, laboratories, hardware and software. Honours is an ideal pathway for high-achieving graduates to enter the doctoral program (PhD), and provides a wider range of career opportunities, including research, analytic or teaching positions.
An honours degree can be undertaken in most of the Faculty’s study areas. Consult your course coordinator in second or third year to assess what projects may be available within your areas of interest.
Course design
The core of the honours program is a 36, 48, or 60 credit-point project (depending on your study area) that will provide students with the opportunity to learn about research by conducting a research project with an experienced researcher who acts as both supervisor and mentor. Students will learn the types of processes, creativity and analytical thinking that lead to scientific and technological advances and how to communicate such findings in a rigorous, systematic manner.
Dean’s Scholars Accelerated Honours Program
While this program has been designed primarily for high school leavers, high-achieving information technology undergraduate students may be invited by the Faculty to enter the program as an incentive to continue on to honours. Eligibility is based on a minimum grade point average.
Units
Pathways
You have the opportunity to choose a study pathway:
Professional pathway
You will learn how to think strategically, identify opportunities and solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet. This pathway will enable you to acquire the business and IT skills to have a career as an IT professional within any industry.
Research pathway
If you are interested in shaping the future of the IT industry you can pursue a research career. You will have opportunities to work with researchers on projects and progress on to an honours degree. You will have access to world-leading researchers within the Faculty.
Entrepreneurship pathway
You now have the opportunity to gain the entrepreneurial skills to develop an idea into a commercial opportunity. You will be able to take advantage of the Faculty’s close relationship with local technology entrepreneurs to learn from their experiences.
In 2001, the Faculty introduced an accelerated Honours program to increase the number of Bachelor of Information Technology students continuing their studies to complete the Honours year. The program allowed selected high achieving students the opportunity to undertake one postgraduate unit in the final semester of the Bachelor of Information Technology which would be counted both for completion of the degree and towards Honours. The program also provided students with the opportunity to commence their Honours studies over the Summer Semester.
The Dean’s Scholars program was introduced in Semester 1, 2006. This program provides a scholarship for OP 1 and 2 students throughout their Bachelor and Honours degrees. Students in the program are required to maintain a high GPA to continue to qualify for the scholarship each semester. Students in the Dean’s Scholars program will be able to take advantage of the Accelerated Honours program. Students in the Dean’s Scholars program will have an option to follow an accelerated pathway through the Bachelor of Information Technology, allowing them to complete the Bachelor of Information Technology course plus the Bachelor of Information (Honours) course in a total of three years.
To encourage students to enter the Dean’s Scholars program, domestic students have their undergraduate HECS paid by the Faculty and those proceeding to Honour’s level will also receive full HECS support. International students who have completed a Year 12 education in Australia and meet the entry requirements for the program will have a third of their tuition fees paid by the Faculty for the undergraduate and Honours program.
An alternative to the Honours program is the Master of Information Technology (Research). Students who complete IT23 with a grade point average equal to, or greater than 5 (7 point scale) and who have decided against enrolling in an Honours program, could undertake this course. In addition, students may wish to enrol in the re-designed postgraduate coursework Masters which has ten specialisations allowing students to either extend their area of interest or specialise in other areas at the Masters level.
Entry requirements
Entry Requirements
Applicants must have:
• a bachelor degree from QUT or its equivalent, completed within 18 months prior to enrolment, with a minimum grade point average of 5 (on a 7-point scale) or its equivalent, or
• demonstrated outstanding performance in the final year of the degree, or
• work experience or research considered appropriate by the course coordinator.
Course fees
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. All fees are based on current fixed fee prices. We review fees annually.
2013: CSP $4200 (indicative) per Semester (48 credit points) (subject to annual review)
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Scholarships and financial support
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
You may also be eligible for Centrelink payments
Apply
How to apply for Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours)
You apply directly to QUT for all our postgraduate courses.
Are you ready to submit your application?
You're ready if you have:
- Checked important dates - the honours application form needs to be submitted for approval in December
- Checked you meet the entry requirements
- Checked course costs and if you're eligible for financial support
- Found a supervisor
- Discussed your options and developed your topic
- Written your research proposal
- Checked if you're eligible for credit for prior learning
- Collected supporting documents (see application form)
All done? Then you're ready to apply.
