B.S. in Information Technology

Admission to the IT major is competitive. Please review the following prerequisites and application process carefully.

Prerequisites

To qualify for admission to IT, applicants must first be admitted to the University of Washington Tacoma and have completed the following required prerequisites: 

• Precalculus (TMATH 115 & 116 or TMATH 120 at UW Tacoma; Precalculus I & II at most community colleges)
• Introduction to Programming (TCSS 142)*

*UW Tacoma students can take either TCSS 141 - Programming for All or TCSS 142 - Introduction to Programming to satisfy the programming prerequisite for the IT major. TCSS 141 is offered at the UW Tacoma campus only. 

*All pre-requisite courses must be completed in the last seven years

Please note: Admission to the IT program is capacity-constrained. Students who are admitted to the program typically have grades of 3.0 and higher in prerequisite courses as well as a strong cumulative grade point average.

GPA Requirements

If you do not meet the GPA requirements, please contact a SET advisor to discuss your situation and options.

• Required cumulative prerequisite GPA of at least 2.5, with a minimum grade of 2.0 in each individual prerequisite.

• Required minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in all college coursework. 

• Applicants are also expected to have a GPA of at least a 2.5 in all college math, science, computer science or engineering coursework.  

Before starting the application, make sure you're ready to apply:

• You've been admitted to UW Tacoma and met the requirements to apply to the major (previous tab).

• You have completed at least 45 college-level credits.

• You completed the prerequisite courses listed in the Admission Requirements tab.

• You've met the GPA requirements noted in the Admission Requirements tab.

• You're meeting the July 1 priority application deadline.

Notes for Transfer Students:

• If you are not admitted to UWT, you cannot be admitted to the IT major, but you may hold off on accepting your offer of admission to UWT until you have your program admissions decision. 
• Transfer students at Washington State community colleges are encouraged to pursue the Associate in Science - Transfer Track 2 to meet the admission requirements. Use the UW Course Equivalency Guide to determine the equivalent prerequisites at your school. 

IT is a capacity-constrained major, which means we normally have more applications than space in the program. Competitive applicants typically have grades of 3.0 and higher in the prerequisite courses, as well as a strong cumulative grade point average.

Your application is evaluated on the following criteria:

• Completion of all prerequisite courses
• Grades in prerequisite courses -- individually and cumulatively
• Overall previous academic performance
• Content and form of personal statement and resume
• Completion of at least 45 college-level credits

All courses within the major must be completed with a minimum grade of 2.0 and a cumulative GPA of 2.5.

• TINFO 200 Programming II for Information Technology and Systems
• TINFO 210 Foundations of Information Management
• TINFO 220 Foundations of Human Computer Interaction for Information Technology & Systems
• TINFO 230 Foundations Web Design and Programming
• TINFO 240 Discrete Math for IT
• TINFO 250 Foundations of Information Networking
• TINFO 310 Foundations of Information Assurance
• TINFO 320 Hardware and Software Systems
• TINFO 360 Information Systems Analysis and Design
• TINFO 370 Managing Technical Teams
• TMATH 110 Statistics
• TWRT 291 Technical Writing
• TCSS 325 Computers, Ethics, and Society
• TINFO 452 Windows System Admin or TINFO 457 Unix System Admin

The IT schedule planning grid shows a sample pathway to complete the B.S. in Information Technology degree. Work with your advisor to make sure you are completing required courses for the program and electives for your area of interest.

Download the IT Planning Grid (PDF)

2023-2024 TINFO Electives 

• TINFO 410 Database Design
• TINFO 431 Server Side Web Applications
• TINFO 441 Network Security
• TINFO 442 Computer Security
• TINFO 443 Digital Forensics
• TINFO 444 Mobile Digital Forensics
• TINFO 445 Mobile Digital Forensics II
• TINFO 446 Mobile Digital Forensics III
• TINFO 451 Routing and Switching
• TINFO 453 Wireless Networking
• TINFO 461 Organizational Information Assurance
• TINFO 462 Building an Information Risk Management Toolkit
• TINFO 463 Establishing and Managing Information Assurance Strategies
• TINFO 480 Research Methods

A required internship demonstrates how the life cycle of Information Technology and systems such as maintenance, modernization, replacement, etc. is conducted within an organization.

The internship is taken as a 1- to 10-credit course:

• TINFO 482 Senior Project
• TINFO 497 Internship or TINFO 481 IT Design Project 

Topics are carried into Senior Project II in ITS.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Academic Support

T INFO 390 Undergraduate Seminar in Information Technology is a workshop style course to help you solve problems and develop a deeper understanding of IT material. The course, overseen by a faculty member and a student mentor includes lectures and problem sessions in mathematics, programming, problem solving, and EE applications.

See also:

• The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) at UW Tacoma provides academic support in math, science, statistics and writing to all UWT students. 
• The Learning and Research Commons (LARC) is the hub of support for all members of our campus community for teaching, learning, conducting research, and using technology to support all of these endeavors.