CX Magazine - Connections Publishing

Computer science and information technology courses are offered at virtually every Australian university. The quality of courses depends on the knowledge and teaching skills of individual lecturers and tutors. Technology is an area where prestige counts for little. The landscape is constantly changing and computer science departments need to be innovative for courses to stay relevant.

Biggest Information Technology Unis

There are some advantages to being big in the technology field. You can offer a greater range of courses and there is a bigger pool of teaching knowledge and talent to draw from. Being big is also a sign that your courses are in demand with students.

The table below lists universities with more than 1,000 information technology students. It shows that “technology” labelled universities generally have large numbers of IT students. Many of the big IT universities also have a large number of international students. IT is one of the most popular courses among students from overseas. For more detailed statistics, go to the Good Universities guide to computer science courses.

Information Technology student numbers
Rank	University	Undergraduate	Postgraduate	Total
1	RMIT University	3 184	925	4 109
2	Monash University	2 106	1 057	3 163
3	Queensland University of Technology	2 055	813	2 868
4	University of Wollongong	2 102	561	2 663
5	University of Technology Sydney	1 660	943	2 603
6	Swinburne University of Technology	1 781	607	2 388
7	Charles Sturt University	1 096	895	1 991
8	Deakin University	1 398	430	1 828
9	Federation University Australia	964	741	1 705
10	University of Tasmania	1 488	200	1 688
11	CQUniversity	799	641	1 440
12	University of Western Sydney	1 336	83	1 419
13	University of New South Wales	921	412	1 333
14	Edith Cowan University	931	375	1 306
15	Macquarie University	1 096	169	1 265
16	Victoria University	447	778	1 225
17	Murdoch University	1 056	150	1 206
18	University of Newcastle	898	276	1 174
19	James Cook University	877	271	1 148
20	Griffith University	879	268	1 147
21	University of Canberra	823	317	1 140
22	University of South Australia	765	332	1 097
23	University of Queensland	778	306	1 084