Bachelor of Information Technology (Games and Entertainment Design)

University of South Australia - Mawson Lakes Campus

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Overview

Balance technical skills with creativity to pursue, career in the technology industry. Develop your ability to design and program games, pitch your ideas and take them to market.

Benefit from our partnership with video gaming giant, Epic Games, makers of the world's most popular and widely used game engine, Unreal.

Study core courses that will give you, strong foundation in IT fundamentals, including networking, database development, programming and systems analysis and design. Then complete specialised courses in computer graphics programming, multimedia design and information visualisation. Key topics include Unreal game engine, Unity game engine, game asset creation, game design, mobile game development and 3D graphical production.

You'll also have the chance to apply technical skills and creativity to wider productions, software and interfaces studying software development tools, user experience and programming. Complete, unique series of collaborative, work-integrated courses in, supportive practice environment. In final year you'll put your skills into practice through our ICT Capstone Project, drawing on your technical expertise and applying professional skills in, real-world setting.

Graduate with a degree accredited by the Australian Computer Society and the skills in-demand by the gaming industry, as well as other sectors, including film and television, health, education and defence. UniSA's IT degrees share common first-year courses, so students have the option to transfer into, different specialisation and receive study credit for successfully completed courses.

CAREERS Game developer, mobile games developer, game programmer, simulation developer, asset creator, software developer, SCRUM developer

Career progression can lead to: Game designer, studio lead, game producer, lead game developer

ATAR & Selection Rank

The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2023.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds
ATAR
(excluding adjustment factors)
Selection Rank
(including adjustment factors)
Highest rank to receive an offer91.0597.35
Median rank to receive an offer74.2577.80
Lowest rank to receive an offer60.7067.70

<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the University of South Australia website for admission criteria information.

Course Seeker

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