Education double degrees offer qualifications that can lead to a teaching career or allow you to pursue careers in a range of industries. In this double degree students complete the requirements for two separate degrees in four and a half years. The course consists of units in information technology and education.

Real-world facilities

Experience the new Education Precinct at the heart of Kelvin Grove campus. With five levels dedicated to world-class teaching, you’ll have access to imaginatively designed face-to-face and online interactive learning spaces. A centrepiece of the Precinct is the Sphere, a digital LED globe suspended over two floors with a changing menu of innovative visual content.

To prepare you to be an inspiring, innovative and confident teacher for the future, you’ll be able to experiment and innovate in preparation for professional experiences in schools. The spaces facilitate just the right balance of collaborative learning, interaction and quiet individual research.

Our expert teaching staff will inspire you to push boundaries, be curious and innovate. Qualities you will in turn foster in the students you teach.

This double degree will equip you to lead the development of technology solutions in the education sector.

Graduates of education will have a solid foundation of knowledge to teach in secondary schools. Your career will be guided by, but not limited to, your chosen teaching areas. Your qualification can also allow you to work in other locations in Australia and overseas.

In the Bachelor of Education component you will learn to innovate and incorporate digital technologies in your teaching. You will be equipped with entrepreneurial thinking and leadership skills and develop the resilience and creative capabilities to adapt to ongoing workforce changes and future opportunities

Our aim is to empower QUT education graduates to shape their own career path and explore the many ways to make an impact. Teachers develop a range of skills which, in combination with work experience and personal qualities, equip them for a variety of careers outside the classroom, including:

• education policy and program implementation
• training and development roles in private and public organisations
• education and outreach roles
• developing products for the education services industry
• learning designer
• entertainment industry roles
• consultancy
• education research.

Career opportunities are unbounded with information technology being an integral part of all commercial, industrial, government, social and personal activities. IT graduates work in a wide variety of roles such as:

• web developer
• database manager
• network administrator 
• electronic commerce developer
• data communications specialist
• software engineer
• systems programmer
• multimedia specialist
• computer scientist
• systems analyst, or
• programmer.

Professional recognition

This course meets professional teaching standards for the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, and Queensland College of Teachers and graduates are eligible to apply for teacher registration.

Graduates may also be eligible for membership to the Australian Computer Society (ACS).

Possible careers

• Computer Game Programmer
• Computer Scientist
• Computer Systems Engineer
• Information Security Specialist
• Network Administrator
• Programmer
• Project Developer
• Secondary School Teacher
• Systems Analyst
• Systems Programmer
• Teacher