Next generation Computer Science degrees.
A new, elite undergraduate computer science degree that will allow students hands-on research experience in frontier technologies such as robotics and computerized human learning has been launched at The Australian National University (ANU).
ANU officials said the Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons) will provide high-achieving students with top-level theoretical education combined with the study of practical research and development projects from day one.
The program is part of a suite of degrees at ANU requiring a UAI of 98 or above; it is research-led and includes an automatic honours component and aims to attract high-performing students who have a strong background in mathematics and wish to secure a degree with an opportunity to move directly into postgraduate research.
In addition, students will have the opportunity to participate in research projects at ANU and National ICT Australia (NICTA).
According to ANU director of the Information and Sciences and Engineering Institute, John Richards, the new degree will lead the way in research-led education in computer science.
"What makes this degree different from almost any other computer science degree on offer in Australia is the opportunity that it provides for students to access current thinking in computer science from some of the world's best researchers. Students also take part in research projects during the course of their degree," Richards said.
"The BCS (Hons) will appeal to a particular calibre of student focused on developing the next generation of computer systems and shaping how people will use them in the future.
"Our BCS (Hons) students will be working in areas such as this, advancing the development of Artificial Intelligence, and other 'frontier' technologies."
Richards said the broader IT program at ANU aimed to provide a university education that suited the different career paths that graduates could take.
"We believe our approach to computing will help to buck the trend of lowering IT enrolments and provide society with the computer scientists it needs now and in the future," Richards said.
Institutions offering IT-related postgraduate courses
- University of Melbourne
- Deakin University
- Monash University
- RMIT University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- The University of Southern Queensland
- The University of New South Wales
- Queensland University of Technology
- Victoria University
- University of Western Sydney
- Central Queensland University
- University of Technology, Sydney
- The University of New England
- University of Wollongong
- Edith Cowan University
- Australian Catholic University
- Australian National University
- Macquarie University
- The University of Queensland
- La Trobe University
- The University of Newcastle
- University of Sydney
- University of Canberra
- Griffith University
- The University of Adelaide
- University of Ballarat
- University of South Australia
- Bond University
- Charles Sturt University
- Murdoch University
- University of Western Australia
- James Cook University
- Southern Cross University
- Curtin University of Technology
- Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology
- University of Sydney
- University of Tasmania
- Flinders University