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University of Western Australia

Perth , Western Australia ,Australia

Bachelor of Advanced Computer Science (Honours) - International Cybersecurity

Studying International Cybersecurity will prepare you for a range of specialist cybersecurity roles with a global perspective. From a system administrator or engineer designing, configuring, and maintaining a secure system; a programmer or application developer building secure, fault-tolerant software systems; to a web specialist assessing risks and determining how best to reduce the potential impact of breached systems. From a user support technician assessing concerns surrounding desktop computing; to a project manager calculating the cost and benefit trade-offs in implementing secure systems. With industry integrated learning, you’ll gain the practical skills and knowledge to lead creation, implementation and management of secure computer systems across a range of exciting career paths, protecting people and their data from cyber-attacks as you draw on your studies across law, policy, ethics and risk management.

Campus Information

Perth (Crawley campus)

Situated on the Swan River in Crawley, UWA is one of Australia’s most picturesque campuses

Intakes

  • Feb
  • July

Application Processing Time in Days: 20

Application Process

More information Required
10 Days
possible interview call
10 Days
Conditional offer
20 Days
Visa process
20 Days

Minimum English Language Requirements

English Level Description IELTS (1.0 -9.0) TOEFL IBT (0-120) TOEFL CBT (0-300) PTE (10-90)
Expert 9 120 297-300 86-90
Very Good 8.5 115-119 280-293 83-86
Very Good 8 110-114 270-280 79-83
Good 7.5 102-109 253-267 73-79
Good 7 94-101 240-253 65-73
Competent 6.5 79-93 213-233 58-65
Competent 6 60-78 170-210 50-58
Modest 5.5 46-59 133-210 43-50
Modest 5 35-45 107-133 36-43
Limited 4 32-34 97-103 30-36
Extremely Limited < 4 < 31 < 93 < 30

Job Opportunity Potential

Almost every Information and Communications Technology career path encompasses some aspect of security, including and beyond the job roles of cybersecurity specialist, information technology specialist, software engineer or information specialist.

Cybersecurity career opportunities continue to grow across all industries including energy and resources engineering, bioinformatics and biochemistry, computational physics and astronomy, transportation, health, finance, marketing, geophysics, geographic information systems and biomechanics.

PSW Opportunity

Post Study Work Steam Renames to Post Higher Education Work Steam.

  • Bachelor degree holders including honours can get upto 2 years of post study stay
  • Master by course work and extended (with a duration exceeding 2 years) can stay upto 2 years
  • Masters by research (with a duration exceeding 2 years) and PhD holder can stay upto 3 years
  • The Maximum eligible age to apply for PSW will be reduced to 35 years of age from 50 years of age for all applicants

Due to the Australian Indian Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement signed by the 2 countries, according to which:

  • Indian students completing bachelor degree including honours can stay upto 2 years
  • Bachelor degree with First class honours in STEM including ICT can stay upto 3 years
  • Masters by coursework in extended researched (with a duration exceeding 2 years) can stay upto 3 years
  • PhD students can stay upto 4 years

Admission Requirement / Eligibility Criteria

Below you’ll find a list of admission equivalencies for this course's Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR).

Indonesian Secondary School Leaving Certificate (STTB SMA)

  • 89.2

All India Senior School Certificate (CBSE)

  • 16.5

Canadian Matriculation (except Quebec)

  • 82

Chinese Gao Kao

  • 0

Chinese Unified Examinations (UEC)

  • 12

French Baccalauréat

  • 13.5

GCE or Cambridge Advanced-level Examinations

  • 13

German Abitur

  • 2.4

International Baccalaureate

  • 27

Norwegian Vitnemål

  • 4.8

Singapore-Cambridge A-Levels

  • 12.5

South African National Senior Certificate

  • 6

Swedish Slutbetyg

  • 17

UWA Foundation Programme (UWAFP)

  • 66

Western Australian Universities Foundation Program (WAUFP)

  • 60

Monash University Foundation Year (MUFY)

  • 270

Trinity College Foundation Program

  • 75

Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) 2016 onwards

  • 92

Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT)

  • 348

U.S. College Board Advanced Placement Examinations

  • 13

Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education

  • 18

Mathematics requirement

This major requires a certain level of Mathematics. If you do not meet this level, you may be able to take additional Mathematics units in your first year to satisfy this requirement.

WACE prerequisite: Mathematics Methods ATAR