Overview
Bay River College’s Information Technology and Network Administrator program, students are prepared to confidently handle the day-to-day responsibilities of managing computer information systems for businesses of any size. A graduate of this program will be prepared to optimize and maintain a company’s digital and hardware infrastructure.
Information Technology and Network Administrator students complete their education with 200 hours of practicum experience. During the Information Technology and Network Administrator program, students gain experience with local area networks (LANs), their use within wide area networks (WANs), and their interconnection to end-user devices. In addition, students will learn about web server management and its connectivity with local networks. Therefore, students can expect to learn a range of important IT skills, including managing system and client software, creating web pages, protecting networks, keeping track of user accounts, and monitoring network event logs for problem resolution.
Learning Outcome
Successful students will gain these skills:
- Information business systems
- Understanding Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN)
- Webpage integration and development
- System security analysis
- Programming language (JavaScript, HTML/CSS and more!)
- Information systems quality assurance analysis
- And more!
Who can apply?
People who are interested in this course should have skills or want to gain or upgrade their skills on:
- reading
- document use
- interest in computer coding
- writing and oral communication skills
- numeracy (basic math, budgeting, data analysis, estimates, etc)
- problem-solving skills, and are proficient using digital devices.
Career Opportunities
Information Technology and Network Administrator students complete their education with 200 hours of practicum experience. Information Technology and Network Administrators manage the computer network for a variety of organizations. Almost every medium- or large-sized business needs a dedicated IT specialist. Graduates of the Information Technology and Network Administrator program can expect to be eligible for many positions in the IT and computer networking fields, including network designs and integrations, Internet web technicians, LAN technicians, data center operators and network administrators.
- Information Technology consulting firms
- IT privet or public companies
- Financial institutions
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Any medium
- large size company that has IT department
- Self-employed
- And more!
