The Information technology (IT) program allows you to join the developers of the future.
The IT programme gives you a solid foundation on IT and allows you to specialize in the field of your own interest with a flexible study plan. Find and use your personal strengths as a future IT-engineer
Xamk’s Degree Programme in Information Technology (IT) is built around three key themes: networking, data centers and IoT (Internet of Things), competence in which is further strengthened by studying other topics such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, programming and project studies.
The IT programme gives you a solid foundation on IT and allows you to specialize in the field of your own interest with a flexible study plan. This way, you can find and use your personal strengths as a future IT engineer. The studies are carried out on our modern and comfortable campus, with state-of-the-art IT equipment.
The IT programme focuses on computer networking and the implementation of services in modern data center environments. You learn to build secure Internet-connected, wired and wireless local area networks and utilize artificial intelligence for your needs. You can run and manage server environments and understand how modern data centers and cloud environments operate. Different IT skills are combined in IoT systems through which you learn how to develop and prototype services and understand their possibilities in global business.
You also learn programming, which allows you to develop and customize services for your needs. A personal study plan allows you to customize your studies based on your own interests and skills
We organize a large part of the studies through Microsoft, Cisco and Amazon AWS academies, which allows our students to gain expertise for many Microsoft, Cisco and AWS certifications. This is a valuable advantage when searching for a job in the IT market. Our Cisco networking lab allows building versatile networking scenarios and getting hands-on experience in working with real devices. We also utilize virtual environments to enable running larger and more complex environments. Our learning environment includes a modern data center environment where students get to practice data center configuration and management tasks. We do not offer ready-made specialization options to choose from. Instead, 30 credits of complementary studies allow you to focus on the topics of your choice at the end of your studies. We make a personal study plan for every student, which allows everyone to specialize in the topics of their own interest and based on their skills. We have a Studies Coordinator to help make choices related to your studies, practical training, bachelor’s thesis and a study period abroad.
Instruction in this degree programme is in English. The teachers are mostly Finns, making communication with staff and teachers possible in both languages.
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