The Graduate Diploma in Information Technology has a strong focus on information systems and database technology. These systems are used and help run organisations of all kinds. About half of the information technology industry in Australia is in this area, and those people who intend to use the Graduate Diploma in Information Technology to leverage their previous skills will use information systems and database technology within their own industries. The Graduate Diploma in Information Technology is an ideal choice for a student who does not have a previous IT degree and wishes to enhance their current discipline areas through specialist IT knowledge.

Graduates of the Graduate Diploma in Information Technology will have completed an industrial-scale system from initial specification through design, implementation and documentation and will have skills software engineering, information systems, discrete mathematics, basic operating systems, networking, relational databases, advanced databases, ontology and the semantic web, web information systems and service-oriented architectures. Depending on their area of expertise, many of our graduates will have specialist knowledge in human-computer interaction,algorithms and data structures, networking, information security, artificial intelligence, and artificial minds. Graduate Diploma in Information Technology graduates are employed in areas as diverse as electronic commerce, information systems, technology management, computer science, health informatics, geographical information systems, and biotechnology.