What's it all about? Telecommunications explores how information is transferred from one point to another, whether that's high resolution images of a distant planet, or massive bandwidth video-on-demand flying across the next-generation Internet. Telecommunications engineers design, develop and maintain all aspects of voice and data communications systems. What does it include? This is an area of specialisation within the field of Electrical Engineering. It's concerned with all aspects of theory and applications for a broad range of systems such as telephone and data networks, radio and TV, satellites and deep space applications. To get you work ready, you'll apply these skills through 60-days of approved industry training. Where will you work? This field is developing rapidly and the demand for graduates is evolving as the technology advances and broadens its scope of applications. You could work for telecommunications service providers such as iiNet or Skype, major equipment and device manufacturers such as Cisco, Apple or Huawei; or a wide range of start-up companies such as Airhop Communications, Cloudscaling, Devicescape or UNSW's own Zedelef. Demand has been boosted by huge infrastructure projects like the NBN. Dual degrees: Dual degrees are a great way of graduating with a wider breadth of knowledge, better preparing you for your future career.

The demand for graduates of telecommunications is rapidly increasing as the technology advances and broadens its scope. Potential employers include major telecommunications service providers; large private industrial groups such as JDS, Uniphase and Alcatel; smaller service and technology providers, all highly specialised and technologically sophisticated.