Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Technology

About this course

The BSc (Hons) in Information Technology is taught on campus at BCI Negombo on weekdays and is listed as UGC recognised and Ministry of Education approved. The page describes a general degree over three years and an Honours degree over four, and the Honours programme carries 120 credits. Year 1 introduces computer systems, programming, web design, mathematics, networks, operating systems, databases and systems analysis. Year 2 builds on this with object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, web programming, multimedia, cyber security fundamentals and a group software project. Year 3 covers big data analytics, artificial intelligence, web services and human-computer interaction before a six-month industrial training placement. In Year 4 students complete a research project and choose electives such as cloud computing, machine learning, mobile application development, IoT and data visualisation. Career paths named by BCI include software engineer, network or system administrator, data scientist, DevOps engineer and database administrator.