Master of Information Technology (MIT)

The MIT Programme is meant for people with no previous academic computing experience and is designed around candidates coming from a wide range of academic backgrounds having a basic degree qualification. This programme provides students from a variety of disciplines with a wide understanding of Information Technology. It is sufficiently general to give you an excellent background to commence a professional career in industrial or commercial organizations, and the required background in IT to enable you to undertake further study leading to the specializations needed for a research career. Course is centered around a set of core skills and four specialized streams to choose from.


Duration:
Two year part time course of four semesters (15 weeks per semester):

Maximum intake -80. Fridays 5.30pm - 7.30pm and Saturdays 8.00 am-4.00pm

Course Fee : Rs. 225,000/=

Entry Qualifications:
 

  • A Degree from a recognized University or,
  • Any other academic or professional qualification judged equivalent to a Degree by the Senate of the University of Colombo.


e.g. Professional Membership of BCS is accepted as an entry qualification for a Master's degree in IT.

SEMESTER 1 (Compulsory courses):
 

Course

Credits

Program Design and Programming

3

Computer Systems

3

Fundamentals of Information Technology

3

Systems Analysis and Design

3


SEMESTER 2 (Compulsory courses):
 

Course

Credits

Database Systems

3

Software Engineering

3

Internet programming

3

Rapid Application Development

3


SEMESTER 3 (Compulsory courses):
 

Course

Credits

Project Management and Professional issues in ICT

2

 

Individual or Group Project

Group Project (4) / Individual Project (10)


Optional Courses:

Students shall offer at least two courses each of 3 credits selected from the following streams.
 

  • Networking : Data communications and networks, Planning and design of networks
  • Multimedia : Multimedia Technology, Graphics and Image Processing.
  • Management : Management and Organizational behavior, Business Information Systems.
  • e-learning : Foundations of e-Learning, Instructional Design for e-Learning


SEMESTER 4 (Compulsory courses):
 

Course:

Continuation of the Individual Project or Group Project


Optional Courses:

Student shall offer at least one course worth 3-credits, selected from the following streams.
 

  • Networking : Data and Network Security, Systems and Network administration
  • Multimedia : Digital Video Production, Multimedia Web Development
  • Management : e-Business and Computational Finance, Business Statistics and Operations Research
  • e-Learning : Planning, Management and evaluation of e-Learning, Evolving Technologies in e-Learning


Additional credits obtainable via:
 

  • Refereed publication in an International Conference – (2 credits per paper)
  • Refereed publication in a National Conference – (1 credit per paper)


The award of MIT Degree:
 

A student who has satisfied the following conditions shall be deemed to have qualified to obtain the Degree of Master of Information Technology.


i.    Has obtained a minimum of 50 credits
ii.    Has obtained a minimum of 2.0 of GPA.
iii.    Has obtained a pass for the individual or group project.

A student who has obtained minimum of 3.25 GPA shall be awarded a Distinction Pass.

The first attempt marks are considered for the computation of GPA for distinction pass.


The best minimum set of courses that exceeds or add up to 50 credits are considered for the calculation GPA.

Application Procedure:
 

Admission to the above course will be made on the basis of a selection test followed by an interview. The medium of instruction will be in English and as such a good working knowledge of English is expected from the candidates. Those awaiting results may also apply, but they would be eligible to be admitted to the programme only if their results are officially available prior to the date of interview.

All information contained herein is subject to interpretation by relevant UCSC By-Laws and Regulations.

Highly Qualified Academic Staff
 

Competency of the academic staff is one of the crucial factors in determining the quality of the educational process. The UCSC presently has 16 Senior Lecturers with PhD qualifications, 12 with Masters Degrees and another 12 with Bachelors level honors Degrees. None of the other universities have such a human resource in IT/CS, one which has been built up over a long period of time with foresight and long term investment. As such, the UCSC can definitely claim a competitive advantage over its competing universities in this respect.


Computing Facilities
 

The UCSC is in possession of a laboratory which was setup especially for MCS/MIT programmes. The lab is equipped with modern and up to date computers enabling to deliver successful computer science study programmes. Furthermore, a fully equipped digital studio at the Advanced Digital Multimedia Technology Centre, a state of the art Data Centre at the Network Operations Centre and a 14 node high performance computing cluster delivering over 15Gflops are a few specialized resources available.