Bachelor of Engineering Technology

The Bachelor of Engineering Technology is aimed at secondary students who have achieved the requisite entrance qualifications (including NCEA Level 3), at recent New Zealand Diploma in Engineering graduates wishing to undertake a degree programme of study in order to enter the engineering profession, and at existing practitioners (in fields such as roading and transportation, water and wastewater engineering, infrastructure, mechanical engineering and design) wishing to obtain a more senior position.

Students will have achieved NCEA Level 3 and met New Zealand university entrance requirements including:

• Three subjects at Level 3, each with a minimum of 14 credits; physics, calculus, and one other subject from NZQA’s list of approved subjects, and
• Literacy - 10 credits at Level 2 or above, made up of five credits in reading and five credits in writing, and
• Numeracy - 10 credits at Level 1 or above, or
• Completed the New Zealand Diploma in Engineering, or equivalent

You need to complete 360 credit hours to successfully obtain this degree. Please check detail of study units at https://www.sit.ac.nz/Programme/Course/Master%20of%20Information%20Technology/campus/Invercargill/subject/Computing-IT

Applicants, whose first language is not English, or who come from a country where the language of instruction in schools is not English, are required to provide evidence of having achieved one of the following

NCEA Level 3 with University Entrance, or

an International Baccalaureate Diploma or Cambridge A- level qualification for which the teaching and assessment was conducted in English; or

Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA),or Trinity College London Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CertTESOL);or

You can join one of the following careers:

• Systems Engineer
• Computer Engineer
• IT Security Engineer

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