Federation Uni IT

Federation University offers the Bachelor of Information Technology (Professional Practice)degree that combines study with work experience, significantly enhancing a student’s employability skills and expanding their  personal and professional horizons.

Participants of this are awarded a scholarship of over $42,000 as they study and complete an internship with IBM®.

The Bachelor of Information Technology (Professional Practice) is an innovative degree that has been developed in conjunction with industry and is recognised as national best practice by the Australian Computer Society.  This program includes a 1600-hour internship experience with IBM® throughout the degree.  The placement hours are flexible, and commence in second year - usually, students will attend placement one to two days a week during semester and more frequently during non-teaching periods.

Students are placed into real workplace teams and mentored as they gradually take on more responsibility and contribute as a meaningful team member.  The skills they develop in this contemporary work environment helps them become a valued and work-ready graduate.

Internships undertaken may be in areas such as mainframe enterprise systems support and development, project management, web development, programming and help desk support.  In this real work environment, the availability of internship areas is determined by the business needs.

Students who successfully complete the program will be encouraged to apply for a graduate position with IBM® or another industry sponsor (subject to meeting graduate recruitment requirements).