• What is Information Systems?
  • Business Information Systems
  • Accounting Information Systems
  • Business Security Management
  • eBusiness
  • Interactive Marketing
  • Health Informatics
  • Professional Practice
  • Quantitative Business Analysis
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Technology Management
• Undergraduate Courses
• Bachelor of Business Information Systems
  • BBIS Prospects
  • Student Profile
  • Applying for the BBIS
  • BBIS course structure
• Bachelor of Business Information Systems combined course
• Honours
  • Honours Prospects
  • Applying for Honours
• Postgraduate Courses
• Master of Information Systems
  • MIS Prospects
  • Applying for the MIS
• Master of Accounting Information Systems
• Doctor of Philosophy

Course Information

Honours

Future Prospects

One of the most critical challenges in job search today is to distinguish yourself from many other undergraduates - your competitors. Having an Honours degree will give you a competitive advantage in the job market.

Indeed, past students have indicated that an Honours degree provided them with the additional skills that employers were seeking:

• Recognise and enhance your independent and enquiring mind
• Acquire and improve your critical thinking and creative problem solving skills
• Gain and deepen your understanding and knowledge of contemporary topics
• Learn to conduct and complete a research project and demonstrate your research capabilities
• Develop and advance your professional communication skills - including presentation and formal report/thesis writing skills

Possessing the skills gained through an IS Honours degree provides strong evidence of your capabilities to address this expectation and demand by prospective employers such as CSIRO, BHP, Telstra and the Banking and Finance sectors.

For many students, Honours can also be a pathway to becoming a research academic. Firstly, you may be given an opportunity to work as a tutor. Secondly, the possession of an H1 Honours degree assists you in obtaining a PhD scholarship. Discover yourself - maybe you should become an academic - a few past students have done this! At our School, Honours has become a research incubator to grow our base of PhD students and staff.