This course aims to produce graduates who will have a sound knowledge of business and computer concepts to allow them to develop IT and business strategies for an organisation. IT plays a pervasive role throughout Society and is an essential consideration for Organisations to realise their potential. Our graduates will be able to clearly understand and develop the use of human resources and contemporary information systems within an organisation. The course looks at how the use of different IT applications can benefit Organisations and covers up-to-date developments in many areas such as e-Business, Web Technologies, E-Commerce, M-commerce, Social Media, Entrepreneurship and Human & Organisational behaviour. Students will learn how to use up-to-date technology to support business needs, how to solve complex problems, finance, marketing, enterprise and management skills. In the first year, you will study a broad range of subjects common to several courses within the Computing Portfolio. These provide the underpinning required for later years and allow flexibility to transfer across pathways in your first year of study. During your second year, you will study modules that provide a greater depth for your chosen programme. In the final year, you will undertake a major project which provides a focus for your studies. The student will focus on acquiring and using the expertise required by a systems analyst to design solutions to business problems and manage the change of working practices of the people involved. The expertise and skills you develop from designing and managing software solutions as part of a team is highly regarded by employers.

Our graduates have excellent employment prospects in the computing, teaching, lecturing and ICT industry, as well as in other areas of the economy. Recent statistics show that the vast majority of graduates from the Computing portfolio are following their chosen career paths within six months of graduating. Graduates from this course have gained employment in a wide range of business & IT disciplines for example, business management, project management, ICT teaching, web design and development, systems analysis, and consultancy. Others have progressed onto postgraduate study.