Business Information Technology

Description

The Information Technology (IT) degrees give you the skills you need for the practical application of computing to areas typically found in industry. These include e-commerce, information systems, and computer consultancy. The Business Information Technology degree incorporates much of the IT course, but also includes financial accounting, marketing and managing enterprises.

Our IT course can be studied as the Information Technology general degree, where a subject focus is decided during the course of the study, or as the themed degree, Information Technology (Consultancy), where a specific focus is decided at the time of enrolment and named in the degree title.

Over half our students choose to do a Year in Industry. This gives you work experience, a salary and the possibility of a job with the same company after graduation. You can also work during your studies as a consultant at the Kent IT Clinic, earning cash or credit towards your degree while providing computing support to local businesses.

The School of Computing is an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence for programming education, with 95% of our research judged to be of international quality. The School is also home to two National Teaching Fellows, authors of widely used textbooks and award-winning Java teaching systems such as BlueJ and Greenfoot.

Careers

Graduates who have both IT knowledge and business skills can expect excellent career prospects. Our recent graduates now work at Accenture, Barclays Capital, BT, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Intel, KCC, Kent Police, Lilly, Microsoft, Oracle, Thomson Reuters, T-Mobile and Thales.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 14860 Year (Non-EEA)

• Total Kent credits: 360
• Total ECTS credits: 180

• Total Kent credits: 360
• Total ECTS credits: 180

• English

Course Content

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation.

Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

• CO333 - Applications Project
• CO334 - People and Computing
• CB714 - Marketing Principles
• CO320 - Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
• CO322 - Foundations of Computing I
• CO323 - Databases and the Web
• CO324 - Computer Systems
• CB366 - Management Principles

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

• CB330 - Financial Accounting 1
• CB514 - Operations Management
• CB676 - Strategy Analysis and Tools
• CO329 - Computer Applications
• CO532 - Database Systems
• CB683 - Marketing Strategy
• CO546 - Information Systems Analysis
• CO547 - Agile Software Development

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

• CO600 - Project
• CO650 - IT Consultancy Project
• CO534 - IT Consultancy Methods
• CO634 - Computer Security and Cryptography
• CO639 - Electronic Commerce
• CO643 - Computing Law and Professional Responsibility
• CO645 - IT Consultancy Practice 2
• CO649 - Data Mining
• CB514 - Operations Management
• CB561 - Business Law
• CB612 - New Enterprise Startup
• CB613 - Enterprise
• CB671 - Spreadsheet Modelling for Operational Research
• CB682 - Managing People

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5 CAE score : 60(Grade C) TOEFL iBT® test : 87

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

The University will consider applications from students offering a wide range of qualifications, typical requirements are listed below, students offering alternative qualifications should contact the Admissions Office for further advice. It is not possible to offer places to all students who meet this typical offer/minimum requirement.

• A level

ABB

• GCSE

Mathematics grade C

• Access to HE Diploma

The University of Kent will not necessarily make conditional offers to all access candidates but will continue to assess them on an individual basis. If an offer is made candidates will be required to obtain/pass the overall Access to Higher Education Diploma and may also be required to obtain a proportion of the total level 3 credits and/or credits in particular subjects at merit grade or above.

• BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (formerly BTEC National Diploma)

BTEC National Diploma Distinction, Distinction, Merit

• International Baccalaureate

34 points overall or 16 points at HL including Mathematics 4 at HL or SL

The University receives applications from over 140 different nationalities and consequently will consider applications from prospective students offering a wide range of international qualifications. Our International Development Office will be happy to advise prospective students on entry requirements. See our International Student website for further information about our country-specific requirements.

Please note that if you need to increase your level of qualification ready for undergraduate study, we offer a number of International Foundation Programmes through Kent International Pathways.

• Kent International Foundation Programme

The Kent International Foundation Programme (IFP) can provide progression to this programme, see www.kent.ac.uk/internationalpathways/ifp for details.

• English Language Requirements

Please see our English language entry requirements web page.

Please note that if you are required to meet an English language condition, we offer a number of pre-sessional courses in English for Academic Purposes through Kent International Pathways.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Kent.

Accreditation

This programme has full CITP abd partial CEng accreditation from the British Computer Society.