ACS is the Australian professional association for the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector across all levels of government, industry, education institutions and research. It is the largest community of ICT professionals in Australia.
ACS accreditation has been the leading and independent stamp of course quality for preparing students for initial professional practice in ICT. This ensures that the skills of students meet the needs for the future of the ICT industry across the wide diversity of functions performed by ICT occupations.
Federation's Bachelor of Information Technology course, along with the range of specialist options from Big Data and Analytics to Mobile Development or Networking and Security to Software Development are all accredited by the ACS. At postgraduate level both the Masters of Technology (Enterprise Systems and Business Analytics) and the Master of Technology (Software Engineering) are ACS accredited. These courses are endorsed as having essential ICT core knowledge in the areas of ICT problem solving and professional knowledge, as well as a conceptual understanding of the broad discipline areas of technology resources, technology building and ICT management.