Course details

Summary

The Graduate Diploma in Information Technology is designed to provide you with advanced IT skills ready for immediate application in industry.

You’ll gain the necessary technical skills and insight so you can adapt to technological changes and meet the challenging demands of the IT world. Your new skill set will enhance your existing qualification and put you in good stead within your current or future workplace.

The Graduate Diploma in Information Technology will give you a range of professional skills including the ability to advise, develop and implement innovations leading to a more efficient use of resources within a dynamic IT environment. You’ll also gain an understanding of the legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks of the IT sector.

The Graduate Diploma in Information Technology will give you a range of professional skills including the ability to advise, develop and implement innovations leading to a more efficient use of resources within a dynamic IT environment. You’ll also gain an understanding of the legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks of the IT sector.

The subject areas you’ll study include:

• Computing infrastructure
• Systems analysis
• Web development

Career Opportunities & Outcomes

The Graduate Diploma in Information Technology can give you a competitive advantage over recent degree graduates, and it will help in your advancement within your chosen field. Once awarded this graduate diploma you’ll be able to take on a role as a:

• Systems analyst
• Web developer
• Business analyst
• E-Commerce advisor
• Project manager

Entry criteria

Applicants must have successfully completed an undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification.

English Language Requirements

• IELTS Academic score of 6 with no band score lower than 5.5
• TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT) score of 550 (with an essay score of 5 TWE)
• TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) score of 60 (with a writing score of 20)
• University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations: FCE, or FCE for schools, or CAE, or CPE with a score of 169. No less than 162 in each skill.
• Pearson Test of English (Academic) score of 50
• City & Guilds IESOL: B2 Communicator with a score of 66
• NZCEL Level 4 Academic
• Completion of an EIT Hawke’s Bay assessment.