Program Overview

Computing with IT Management

Overview

The award in computing focuses on providing the student with deep current skills in software development, interactive web applications, enterprise database technologies, cloud technologies, virtualization, social media analysis, scripting, algorithms & data structures and visualization.

Graduates of this course have strong technical skills across a range of current IT technologies and are in a position to write code/scripts/algorithms, design cloud applications, develop enterprise web applications and visualize information from a range of different database sources.

The award in IT Management provides deep current skills in web, database, cloud technologies, operating systems, networks and infrastructure. Graduates of this course have strong technical skills across a range of current IT technologies and are in a position to analyse, configure, make secure and manage the IT resources in an organisation.

Minimum Entry Requirements

This course also facilitates current employees that are looking to up-skill and potentially move up within their area. Applicants require a Level 7 award or equivalent in computing or a cognate area. All applicants must have competence in spoken and written English.

Career Opportunities

Graduates from this course have gone on to pursue roles as data analysts, cloud architects, support engineers, QA consultants, security engineers, network engineers, database administrators, web developers and IT system managers with such companies as SAP, Microsoft, IBM, Fidelity, Openet, Ergo, SalesForce and Bank of Ireland.

Course Content

The aim of this course is to produce graduates with the skills knowledge and competence, to enable them to work in the technical management of IT resources, areas covered include:

• Applied Machine Learning (Elective)
• Private Cloud Architecture
• Social Media Analysis (Elective)
• DevOps - Continuous Integration and Deployment (Elective)
• Interactive Media Design & Visualisation
• Information Management
• IT Mgt Project Semester 7
• Security for the cloud and IoT
• Applied Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning (Elective)
• Architecting on the Public Cloud (Elective)
• E-Learning (Elective)
• Enterprise Performance Architecture
• IT Governance and Quality
• Operations Research
• It Mgt Project Semester 8
• User Experience Design (Elective)
• Advanced Cloud Provisioning & Networking (Elective)

Schedule

3 evenings per week.

Fees

€3,550

Duration

1.5 Years

Mode of Study

Part Time

Method of Delivery

Blended

Commencement Date

September 2025

Location

Tallaght

Award Type

Major

Award

Bachelor of Science (Honours)

NFQ Level

Level 8

TU Code

TU069F

Course Type

Undergraduate