BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BIT at YCI prepares you for a career working with computers and information, where you’ll apply technical skills to solve problems, support innovation, and improve communication between people.
Objectives:
Build IT human resource capacity in both the public and private sectors.
Develop professionals with theoretical and practical skills in the Information Technology (IT) sector;
Strengthen capacity and institutional building in the IT discipline in tertiary institutions, private and public sectors.
Period = 3 years
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
UCE and UACE Certificates with 2 Principle passes, or
Diploma from a recognized Institution of Higher Learning in a relevant discipline.
Foreign Applicants;
Prospective applicants whose final high school grades are in percentages and average points system e.g. Sudan, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia and others must have their grades first equated or standardized by Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) before admission to YMCA Comprehensive Institute.
Kenyan applicants for degree programmes should hold either;
The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) holders must have a minimum Grade of C+ and above, OR
The Kenyan Advanced Certificate of Education “GCE or A-levels” applicants must have at least 2 principal passes or its equivalent.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
Year 1: SEMESTER I
| Name | CU | |
| ICT11050 | Information and Communication Technology | 4 |
| BIT1102 | Computer Literacy | 4 |
| ECV1103 | Ethics and Christian Values | 3 |
| BIT1104 | Management Information Systems | 4 |
| BCS1101 | Business Communication Skills | 3 |
Year 1: Semester II
| ETR1205 | Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| ACC1203 | Financial Accounting | 4 |
| BIT1201 | Database Management Systems | 4 |
| BIT1206 | Computer networks and data communication | 4 |
| BIT1202 | System analysis and design | 4 |
| BIT1204 | Internet technology and web systems | 4 |
Year 2: Semester I
| BIT2101 | Information systems project Management | 4 |
| BIT2105 | Introduction to programming | 4 |
| BIT2102 | Intelligent Systems | 4 |
| BIT2103 | Enterprise data management | 4 |
| BIT2104 | Information storage and retrieval | 4 |
Year 2: Semester II
| RMD2203 | Research Methodology | 3 |
| BIT2201 | Systems dynamics and simulation | 4 |
| POM2205 | Principles of Management | 3 |
| BIT2204 | Business process modeling | 4 |
| BIT2202 | Data mining and &data warehousing | 4 |
Year 3: Semester I
| BIT3101 | Enterprise Architecture | 3 |
| BIT3102 | Operating systems | 4 |
| BIT3103 | IT Project Management & Development | 4 |
| BIT3104 | Strategic management of Information Systems | 4 |
| RPT3105 | Research Report | 4 |
Year 3 Semester II
| BIT3203 | Logic, probability and statistics | 4 | |
| BIT3201 | Security in information systems | 4 | |
| BIT3202 | Computer Repair and Maintenance | 3 | |
| BIT3205 | Knowledge based systems | 3 | |
| BIT3204 | Mathematics for Information Systems | 4 |