- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
The Higher Diploma in Information Technology is a postgraduate conversion course intended for graduates whose primary degrees are not in Computing and Information Technology. On completion of the course participants would be expected to reach a level of competence equivalent to that of 3-year computer science graduates.
Entry Requirements
Applicants for the course are required to hold a university degree, or its equivalent, in non-computing discipline(s) recognised by the Senate of the University. Applicants who have taken substantial computing units previously may not be admitted and are recommended to apply for the Higher Diploma in Science (Computer Science) MHG58 instead. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
Year 1
- WEB INFORMATION PROCESSING
- ALGORITHMS & DATA STRUCTURES 2
- ALGORITHMS & DATA STRUCTURES 1
- INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS
- SOFTWARE TESTING.
- DATABASES
- STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
- MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY
- SOFTWARE ENGINEERING & SOFTWARE PROCESS
- OPERATING SYSTEMS
- DISCRETE STRUCTURES 1
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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