Undergraduate students will learn how to develop and deploy digital systems that satisfy organisational and societal requirements. In addition to a core of knowledge and skills in algorithms, software development, computer systems, security, data management, and project management, they will develop a deep focus in one of three areas: software development, computer security or data science. At the same time students will develop professional and behavioural competencies necessary for life-long career success.

This combination of technical, professional, and behavioural competencies is achieved through a unique work-integrated learning model. Through a wide range of partnerships with employers, students will be in paid employment, with a single employer, from day-one throughout the four years of the program. Employers will be partners in the learning process by virtue of their commitment to provide learning experiences in the workplace that satisfy certain course learning outcomes. Formal, or classroom, learning is focussed on core concepts and theories while learning in the workplace provides practical application and experiential learning, carefully curated to meet learning objectives in partnership with the program. Partner employers commit to allowing student employees twenty five percent of their normal working time to be devoted to studies in the program. As employees, the students perform assigned workplace duties for the remaining seventy five percent of normal working time, some of which is targeted experiences that satisfy course learning objectives.

Courses typically include significant project work, usually implemented through workplace learning opportunities, as well as large-scale projects in the final two years that include professional and behavioural outcomes.