Information & Communications Technology Information & Communications Technology The is such a broad range of Information and Communications Technology jobs in almost every industry that you have the benefit of choice once your degree is completed. There are positions in designing, maintenance, networking and development that may interest you. A lot will depend on the modules you choose and what you want to do. Studying these subjects offers very specific career paths and there are opportunities in a wide variety of companies as IT is central to most businesses and candidates can work in a multitude of organisations from educational facilities to multinational corporations. Most IT courses offer many different facets of speciality and some degrees may be more theoretical compared to hands on courses. With your course you may well be learning programming, hardware knowledge, software engineering, web design and networking. These are all careers that can be explored and compared to most other courses are real skills in a subject that you can use day to day at work; skills that employers are looking for. Even if you are not interested in following an IT and Communications career you will have acquired many transferable skills. You will have abilities in engineering, math’s and physics whilst gaining traits such as analysis, logic and modeling that can allow you to diversify into other numeracy based careers. Outside of this there is also normally quite a lot of project management work in IT courses so team work, communication and leadership skill will have been obtained so that you can progress to management levels or transfer into other careers. Many Information & Communications Technology graduates also decide to pursue a postgradaute degree. Nearly one in 10 of the 2010 Computer Science and IT graduates moved on to studying a Masters, PhD, teaching qualification, CIMA qualification or Microsoft Certificate. Of those in employment, nearly 45 percent work as IT profesionals: others found work in the marketing, commercial, arts and financial areas with retail the second most popular job choice. Figures are taken from the 2011 edition of "What Do Graduates Do?".

Information & Communications Technology

The is such a broad range of Information and Communications Technology jobs in almost every industry that you have the benefit of choice once your degree is completed. There are positions in designing, maintenance, networking and development that may interest you. A lot will depend on the modules you choose and what you want to do. Studying these subjects offers very specific career paths and there are opportunities in a wide variety of companies as IT is central to most businesses and candidates can work in a multitude of organisations from educational facilities to multinational corporations.

Most IT courses offer many different facets of speciality and some degrees may be more theoretical compared to hands on courses. With your course you may well be learning programming, hardware knowledge, software engineering, web design and networking. These are all careers that can be explored and compared to most other courses are real skills in a subject that you can use day to day at work; skills that employers are looking for.

Even if you are not interested in following an IT and Communications career you will have acquired many transferable skills. You will have abilities in engineering, math’s and physics whilst gaining traits such as analysis, logic and modeling that can allow you to diversify into other numeracy based careers. Outside of this there is also normally quite a lot of project management work in IT courses so team work, communication and leadership skill will have been obtained so that you can progress to management levels or transfer into other careers.

Many Information & Communications Technology graduates also decide to pursue a postgradaute degree. Nearly one in 10 of the 2010 Computer Science and IT graduates moved on to studying a Masters, PhD, teaching qualification, CIMA qualification or Microsoft Certificate. Of those in employment, nearly 45 percent work as IT profesionals: others found work in the marketing, commercial, arts and financial areas with retail the second most popular job choice.

Figures are taken from the 2011 edition of "What Do Graduates Do?".