Information Technology, BS

120 total semester credit hours required

Program Requirements prior to admission into USF Polytechnic
(approximately 60 semester credit hours)
Students should complete their associate's degree or 60 transferable credit hours at the local community college or another college or university prior to admission into USF Polytechnic. Limited access programs have additional prerequisite and GPA requirements for admission into the college or program of their choice. Some lower level prerequisite courses are now available at USF Polytechnic.

General Education Requirement
To earn a bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida, you must complete the state-required general education course work. These are lower level courses that are required for all undergraduate students. These general education courses are automatically satisfied with an Associate of Arts degree from a regionally accredited Florida public college or university.

English composition (6 credit hours)
Quantitative methods (6 credit hours)
Social sciences (6 credit hours)
Natural sciences (6 credit hours)
Historical perspectives (6 credit hours)
Fine arts (3 credit hours)
African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, or Asian perspectives (3 credit hours)

Prerequisite Courses Required
Students should complete the prerequisite courses listed below at the lower level prior to entering the university. If these courses are not taken at the community college, they must be completed before the degree is granted. Unless stated otherwise, a grade of C is the minimum acceptable grade.

PSY 2012 Introduction to Psychological Science*
STA 2023 Probability and Statistics*
ECO 2013 Economic Principles (Macroeconomics)*
CGS XXXX Any Database Course
COP 2930 IT Programming Concepts
COP 2224 Object Oriented Programming
MAC 1140 Pre-Calculus Course*
PHY XXXX Any Physics Course*
M** XXXX Discrete Mathematics Course

*These courses count toward the General Education Requirement noted above.

Information Technology Program Requirements at USF Polytechnic
(approximately 60 semester credit hours)

Program Requirement Flowchart (pdf)

Information Technology Program Requirements at USF Tampa
(approximately 60 semester credit hours)

Program Requirement Brochure (pdf)

Foreign Language Requirement (8-10 credit hours)
All students must complete the institution's foreign language requirement. For students receiving a Bachelor of Science degree, this is satisfied with successful completion of either two years of the same foreign language in high school or two semesters of the same foreign language in college. Foreign language courses are not available at USF Polytechnic.

Exit Requirements
All exit requirements are built into the BSIT curriculum