马努卡理工学院

Get training in key information technology (IT) skills and graduate with a degree in high demand by the industry worldwide.

This degree meets the high accreditation standards of the Institute of IT Professionals (IITP), who also endorse it as being of the calibre that provides “the best pathway to industry in New Zealand and abroad.”

You’ll be able to make a practical link between the latest digital technologies and today’s business environment ensuring that you’re well equipped to take your place in this exciting and constantly changing industry. This degree will provide you with the skills to analyse, design, develop, implement and maintain information systems across a variety of industries and business types.

As well as a strong grounding in analytical, technical and theoretical concepts this degree also uses hands-on practical methods and teaches important people skills like communication and management skills. At the culmination of this programme you’ll be able to do a real-world project where you can apply your skills in the workplace.

Choose from three majors

You can enhance your future career or personal goals by complementing the core ICT programme with elective courses from one of the following majors:

Networking

• use, install and administer at least two widely-used commercial operating systems
• use, install, troubleshoot and administer a server-based network
• analyse and implement information security requirements
• apply cloud computing concepts in the design and implementation of resilient computing systems.

Software and Web Development

• understand and apply software engineering best practices, development principles, tools and programming languages apply problem solving skills and design software algorithms
• analyse business processes and design software solutions to solve and improve them
• implement software solutions for at least two software platforms (such as web,
  mobile, desktop, and/or cloud, etc.).

Data Analytics

• use, design and develop both frontend and back-end data manipulation technologies to support decision making,
  statistical models and analytics reports that solve business problems
• analyse security, privacy, risks, opportunities and ethical issues of big data and data analytics
• design and develop multi-dimensional data warehouses from a range of internal and external databases.

Career opportunities

The Bachelor of Digital Technologies prepares graduates for employment in the field of information and communication technologies.

Opportunities for employment depend on the major studied and include:

• IT manager, web developer
• Programmer
• Software developer
• Software architect
• Systems analyst
• Business analyst
• Network/software support specialist
• Multimedia developer
• User experience designer
• Network/database administrator
• Business and data analytics professional
• IT project manager (incorporating business analytics and intelligence).

Further training or study

• Graduate Diploma in Data Analytics (Level 7)
• Graduate Diploma in Networking (Level 7)
• Graduate Diploma in Software and Web Development (Level 7)