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Information networking and telecommunications (INT) is an IT degree that gives students dual career paths in IT on both the business and technical sides. Smart homes, smart phones, cyber security, and data centers require INT professionals to make things work.
We teach you to "think like a hacker."
Healthcare, government agencies and private companies need INT professionals to lead them in the best ways to secure and protect their data.
"We teach you IT leadership and professional skills."
Within the INT program, you can win championships at CCDC (nccdc.org), mingle with some of the top companies in the region and nation as well as learning on the latest industry platforms.
As an INT professional, you could:
As an INT professional, you could:
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Students cabling a network in the INT lab |
- Manage web servers
- Analyze & configure to fend off hackers
- Link employees in your company to wireless
- Manage routers and switches in a data center
- Implement services like YouTube or GMail
- Help your business interconnect to resources
- Setup and manage your company's voice network (videoconferencing, VoIP, telephony, unified messaging)
- Lead your company in best security practices
- Manage an IT team
Our field is growing, growing, GROWING... According to the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics the fastest growing occupations from 2004 to 2014 include:
- Network systems and data communication analysts
- Network and computer systems administrators

- Information networking and telecommunications literacy
- Project management
- Leadership and management
- Information networking law and public policy
- Trends and Issues
- Internship
- Technical Content:
- Electricity/Electronics
- LAN/WAN Network Design
- Switching & Routing
- Network Security & Identity Management
- Telephony & VoIP
- Internship