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Overview
Field of Study: Information Technology
Division: Traditional Undergraduate
Locations: Quincy MA
Options: Major
Degrees: B.S., A.S.
Degrees in Information Technology lead toward careers in installing, maintaining, and improving computer systems, operating networks, and databases. IT professionals typically work in teams within an organization, monitoring and improving its technology.
Career Paths
A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology has great immediate and long-term employment prospects. With salaries easily exceeding $90,000 per year and jobs that are non-exportable, these positions are highly desirable. Further, this sector is expected to grow at 10% over the next 10 years, twice as quickly as the 5% average for the overall economy.
Additionally, an Associate degree in Information Technology provides students with immediate, well-paying career prospects in areas such as help desk support.
Outcomes
Upon completion of the BS in Information Technology degree, graduates will be able to:
- Successfully complete a research or a product development project in computer science.
- Successfully defend their research or product development project in the presence of faculty, peers and the broader community.
- Design, write, and debug computer programs
- Use and understand concepts such as data structures and algorithms within computer programs
- Research or solve a problem in a world area
- Take a complex problem and split it into a sequential set of parts that can be translated into the language of programming logic.
- Use their intellectual and artistic curiosity in their research or while solving a problem in a world area
- Use commonly used techniques like well named variables, functions, indenting properly, and understandable commenting, as well as the most current coding standards for professional looking code
- Give general and technical presentations
- Work collaboratively on programming assignments
- Consider diversity of cultures to improve and strengthen their ideas, designs and their overall contribution to the world community
Upon completion of the AS in Information Technology degree, graduates will be able to:
- Design, write, and debug computer programs
- Demonstrate use of the fundamentals of Networks and Security
- Work collaboratively on programming assignments
- Research or solve a problem in a world area
- Present ideas in a cohesive fashion for disseminating knowledge to others.
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