Information Technology Degree Program

The Information Technology (IT) Associate Degree program prepares students to start or advance an IT career or to transfer seamlessly to a 4 year college. If you enjoy working with computers, earning an IT degree will help you turn that interest into a professional career. Our alumni who specialized in Networking are employed in a wide range of jobs from configuring and repairing PC's to technical support to administering and designing networks. Those who specialized in Applications Development are now programmers, database administrators or web site developers.

All degree candidates study core IT competencies including programming, database design, home and small businesses networking, and personal computer hardware and software. In their second year, students concentrate in either network design and administration or applications development (programming/database/Internet)

The degree of Associate in Science with a major in Information Technology is awarded upon successful completion of the program. Some graduates continue their formal education in a bachelor degree program at another college. The NHTI IT department has a transfer agreement with Southern New Hampshire University or students can take advantage of a dual enrollment program with UNH-Manchester. Others begin or continue their professional careers directly.

• The Information Technology Department at NHTI is a regional and local Cisco Networking Academy. Students choosing the Network Option take four Cisco courses - Networking for Home and Small Businesses (IT 150), Working at a Small-to-Medium Business or ISP (IT 152), Introducing Routing and Switching in the Enterprise (IT 250), and Designing and Supporting Computer Networks (IT 252). These courses prepare students to sit for the Cisco Certification exams (CCENT and CCNA).
• The department also offers a course in Personal Computer Hardware and Software (IT 108) which prepares students to sit for the CompTIA A+ certification, a widely recognized vendor-neutral certification for service technicians.
• Students choosing the Applications Development option learn object oriented programming, database design, Visio modeling and SQL. They program in five languages: C#.NET, HTML, VB.NET, Java and SQL. They then apply these skills in business application development for Windows or web environments.

Senior Internship
All students are required to complete a senior internship in the area of their concentration and career goals. The internship provides real-life experience applying skills learned in the classroom. Employers work closely with the students and professors to ensure an environment that enhances each student's education, provides experience and introduces the student to the IT business environment.

Internship Considerations
The college must ensure that individuals (customers, employees, etc.) at internship and service learning sites are not adversely affected by students during learning experiences. Therefore, students participating in internship and field experiences must demonstrate the emotional stability required to exercise sound judgment, accept direction and guidance from a supervisor or faculty member and establish rapport and maintain sensitive interpersonal relationships with employees, customers and clients.

Specific Admission Requirements

1. High school Algebra I with a grade of “C” or better or NHTI's MT 103 and MT 104 with grades of “C” or better;
2. Computer keyboarding skills are assumed.

Information about transferring to other institutions

# Indicates major field courses
* Student will take IT 106 in the first half of the semester and IT 107 in the second half.
+ Any course with a prefix of AN, EO, HI, PS, PY or SO (except HI 104 and HI 105).
++ BI 100, CH 100 and PH 100 do not meet this requirement.

CL- Number of lecture/classroom hours per week for the course
LAB- Number of simulation laboratory, laboratory or clinical hours per week for the course
CR- Number of credit hours for the course

Revised July 11, 2008