Several Victorian universities offer a broad range of Information Technology bachelor degrees and below is a list of many of these courses.

For a comprehensive list of courses (including the many double-degree options) on offer at both TAFEs and universities, visit VTAC.

INSTITUTION

VCE PREREQUISITES

MAJOR STUDIES IN 2025

CQU

M – Melbourne

Direct application

Units 3 and 4: satisfactory completion of any English.

2025 ATAR: 65.00 threshold

Application Development, Business Analysis, Cyber Security.

DEAKIN

M – Melbourne

G – Geelong Waurn Ponds

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 20 in English other than EAL.

2025 ATAR: L/N (G), 62.10 (M)

Application development (Games animation, Web design, Web applications programming) (Burwood), Cloud native application development (Burwood), Cyber security, Cyber security network operations (minor only), Embedded systems (Burwood, minor only), Game design (Burwood, minor only), Information technology (Computer networks, Programming, Distributed systems, Games development, Software development, Databases), Network and cloud technologies (Burwood, minor only), Networking and cloud computing, Programming (Burwood, minor only), Security management (minor only), Virtual and augmented reality (Burwood, minor only).

FEDERATION

Ba – Ballarat

Be – Berwick

G – Gippsland

** Professional Practice Degree – interview part of selection

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in any English.

2025 ATAR: 52.70 (Be) Cyber), 52.75 (Be) (Soft. Eng)

L/N every other course and campus

Four Information Technology Degrees that may be of interest are:- Information Technology (AI and Data Science)

- Information Technology (Business Analysis)

- Information Technology (Cybersecurity)

- Information Technology (Software Engineering)

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in any English; Units 1 and 2: satisfactory completion in two units (any study combination) of Maths: General Mathematics, Maths: Mathematical Methods or Maths: Specialist Mathematics or Units 3 and 4: any Mathematics.

2025 ATAR: N/P (Ba)**, L/N (Be)**

Mainframe (a unique worldwide offering via few universities), Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Business Analysis, Cyber Security, and Software Engineering, Professional Practice.

**Combine study and practical industry experience. Through the degree you'll also become job-ready through our career development units, and complete 1600 hours of paid industry placement through Federation Co-op.

LA TROBE

B – Bendigo

M – Melbourne

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 20 in English other than EAL.

2025 ATAR: 58.50 (B), 55.05 (M)

Artificial intelligence (Melbourne), Cloud analytics (Melbourne, and Sydney), Data science (Melbourne), Information systems (Melbourne), Network engineering (Melbourne), Software engineering (Bendigo, Melbourne, and Sydney).

MONASH

C - Clayton

Units 1 and 2: satisfactory completion in two units (any study combination) of Maths: General Mathematics, Maths: Mathematical Methods or Maths: Specialist Mathematics or Units 3 and 4: any Mathematics; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL.

2025 ATAR: 75.00 (Cl)

3D modelling and animation (minor), Applied cybersecurity, Business information systems, Computer programming, Computer science (minor), Computing, Data science (minor), Games and immersive media, Games design (minor), Games development (minor), Human-computer interaction (minor), Information management, Information technology, Mobile apps development (minor), Software development, Software engineering (minor), Web development (minor).

RMIT

C – City

** Professional Degree

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 27 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in one of Maths: General Mathematics, Maths: Mathematical Methods or Maths: Specialist Mathematics.

2025 ATAR: 70.30 (C); 2025 ATAR: 83.80 (C) **

Agile software development & Dev Ops, Business IT, Cyber security, Data networks, Database administration, Databases, Graphics, Information technology, Internet technology, Mobile programming, Networks and data communications, Object-oriented modelling, Object-oriented programming, Problem solving, Professional practice, Programming, Programming (.Net, Java, PHP, Python), Project Management, Security, System administration.**Industry Internship in the 4th year

SWINBURNE

H - Hawthorn

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English as an Additional Language (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL.

2025 ATAR: L/N (H)

Information technology, Network technology, Software technology.

VICTORIA

F – Footscray Park

^^ Not Foundation Maths

** Professional Degree

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English as an Additional Language (EAL) or at least 20 in English other than EAL; Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in any Mathematics.^^

2025 ATAR: N/P (F); 2025 ATAR: L/N (F)**

Network and system computing, Web and mobile application development.

** 12-month placement in the IT industry

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