Diploma of ICT Professional Practice

Professional industry certifications offer a credible, skills focused means for you to demonstrate advanced competency with a particular sub discipline or technology. The value of professional certification to employers is high, and even for existing employees there is an ongoing need to maintain and build technical skills and knowledge.

This degree will provide you with a broad range of knowledge in key ICT areas including data science, game development, cybersecurity, and Virtual and Mixed Reality. Through the Diploma, you will have the opportunity to attain professional certifications that offer a credible, skills-focused means of demonstrating advanced competency with leading industry technologies and systems. This means you'll graduate with the necessary qualifications desired by employers.

Led by expert staff that deliver distinctive, rewarding, and place-based learning experiences, the teaching environment aims to provide a university experience that is student-centred and personal, enabling you to realise your individual career goals.

On graduation, you may choose to build on your achievements and broaden your skills and knowledge by continuing your study in the Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology.

From contemporary business transactions to online and software-based products, systems and services, our world relies on ICT professionals for maintenance and innovation. That's why gaining professional certifications through your Diploma of ICT Professional Practice is highly sought after by a range of employers.

Graduates often enter technical positions such as software programmer, network administrator, systems or business analyst, and web design/development, before progressing into management roles after 3 - 5 years. Advanced level positions can see you formulating insights as a business analyst, testing networks as a systems manager or protecting important assets as a security specialist.

The employment market for ICT roles promises high growth in the coming years, with an expected of increase of 38.9% (that's 39,200 additional jobs) by 2026.

Here are some of the top jobs projected to grow in the next five years:

• ICT Support and Test Engineers 43.7%
• Computer Network Professionals 22.2%
• ICT Managers 17.7%
• ICT Business and Systems Analysts 12.9%

* ABS Labour Force Survey, National Skills Commission trend data to May 2022 and projections to 2026