Information systems and digital technology play a major role in organisations and in delivering products and services. With Information Systems (IS), we can change how we work, communicate, and do business.
IS is about how businesses use information technology to become smarter, better, faster, and achieve their strategic goals. By providing access to information, IS enables organisations to create value, provide solutions, and use technology to innovate and to create new opportunities.
Develop knowledge to address practical problems of how to access information, how to design, develop, and deliver IT solutions, as well as how to manage IS projects, personnel, and resources.
Learn through industry and group projects, lab work, and extracurricular activities.
Flexible study options — you can take courses like marketing, accounting, data science, software engineering, entrepreneurship, alongside information systems.
Take part in business and entrepreneurial projects and events and find support at Te Pokapū Rakahinonga UC Centre for Entrepreneurship.
Information Systems is one of the fastest growing areas for study and employment. It is on the long-term skill shortage list for Aotearoa and there is also a global shortage.
Through your studies, in addition to technical skills, you will learn workplace skills like project management, process management, governance and strategy, communication, and problem-solving.
Career pathways could include: IT project manager, user experience designer, ISIT consultant, business intelligencedata analyst.