Information technology touches all corners of modern society, be that designing a database for a national car rental firm, calculating correct aircraft navigation courses, monitoring a treatment plan in a hospital, building software for mobile communications or supporting journalists in preparing newspaper copy online.
All of these jobs use modern IT technology. The need has never been greater for skilled people who can manage this technology, whether it be designing a system, developing its software, managing its operation or providing training and support to its users.
At Lincoln we endeavour to equip our graduates with a variety of transferable computing skills which they can apply to real world problems. Our focus is on understanding and evaluating existing techniques and theories and applying them to solve these problems.
There are several Software and Information Technology programmes available at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is also possible to add Software and Information Technology courses to other degrees to obtain an additional Major or Minor in Software and Information Technology.
Graduates in Software and Information Technology work in many fields across different industries, but most commonly: