Diploma in Business with Information Technology

About this course

This programme is specifically designed to provide:

• Students for careers in hybrid environments where business information systems are increasingly integrated, encompassing a wide range of enabling technologies and cross organisational, social, national and international boundaries.
• Students with academic and professional skills to develop solutions requiring the application of both business and information technology disciplines in a commercial and organisational context.
• Students with critical, independent and cooperative learning skills so as to facilitate responses to continuous future changes in technology and industry practices.
• Students with intellectual skills, communications ability and team working capability.

Entry Requirements

• An overall credit pass in 3 subjects at SPM and a minimum of pass in Bahasa Malaysia and Sejarah (History); or
• An overall credit pass in 3 subjects at O-Levels/GCSE; or
• A qualification that APU accepts as equivalent to the above

English Language Requirement

• IELTS: 5.5
• TOEFL: 65 (Internet Based Test), 513 (Paper Based Test), 183 (Computer Based Test)
• Other Certification or Evidence of English Proficiency that APU accepts as equivalent to the above
• Applicants who do not possess the above will be required to sit for the APU English Placement Test

Curriculum

Semester 1

• English for Academic Purposes
• Fundamental of Entrepreneurship
• Managing Business
• Practical IT Skills

Semester 2

• Professional Communications
• Academic Research Skills
• Computer Technology
• Quantitative Methods

Semester 3

• Database Systems
• Visual Basic
• Marketing
• Business Economics

Semester 4

• Multimedia Applications
• Internet Applications
• Legal Framework of Business
• Business Statistics
• Accounting
• Systems Analysis & Design

Semester 5

• Organisational Behaviour
• Managing Services
• Managing Information Systems
• IT Operations Management
• Multimedia Applications