About the Program

The BS Information Technology program includes the study of the utilization of both hardware and software technologies involving planning, installing, customizing, operating, managing and administering, and maintaining information technology infrastructure that provides computing solutions to address the needs of an organization.

The program prepares graduates to address various user needs involving the selection, development, application, integration and management of computing technologies within an organization.

The BSIT degree program of Visayas State University - Isabel was first implemented in the school year 2003-2004 by Board Resolution no. 107, S. 2002, with the guidance of CHED Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 53 series of 2006. From 2007 until June 2021, VSU-Isabel has produced 400+ graduates. The program adopted the CHED Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 25, Series of 2015, to comply with the K-12 curriculum.

Career Opportunities

• Web and Applications Developer
• Junior Database Administrator
• Systems Administrator
• Network Engineer
• Junior Information Security Administrator
• Systems Integration Personnel
• IT Audit Assistant
• Technical Support Specialist
• QA Specialist
• Systems Analyst
• Computer Programmer

Notable Alumni

The following Viscans who graduated in this program have made a name in their field:

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  JASON J. ADAYA (Class of 2007)

  A former President of IT Club, he is an IT Specialist and Application Developer and have worked in prestigious companies in the likes of IBM Solutions Delivery Inc. Philippines, Lexmark International Philippines and PASAR corporation

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  AIZA L. MANGUBAT (Class of 2009)

  A former IT Club Vice President, for 7 years she works as the Team Lead Computer Programmer and Team Database Administrator of M Lhuiller Inc. Currently, she is a Team Lead Software Engineer at Accenture Inc. performing the following functions:

  • Performance management career counselling, coaching, performance development, 1-1s, mentoring
  • Daily supervision of the assigned team ensuring the highest possible standard of quality and delivery.
  • Working within multiple teams across both Accenture and Client teams to execute project deliverables.
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  CHRISTIAN ROM L. BELTRAN (Class of 2013)

  A former IT Club Officer, he is an Information Security Risk Consultant – ISO27001 Lead Auditor at Optum Global Solutions performing the following functions:

  • Responsible for maintaining the overall information security and compliance across the organization.
  • Performs information security risk assessments & IT control audits 
  • Responsible for developing and maintaining various policies and procedures and other documentation related to risk management, IT controls, information security and compliance.
  • Responsible for providing structured information security risk and compliance reporting to senior/executive leadership team, and company-wide levels as applicable.
  • Also responsible for maintaining the end-to-end training & development program. Heavily involved with the hiring selection process, assessing and interviewing applicants that can be a good fit for the role, providing assistance from onboarding, process training until deployment to the production.
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  EMERALD EVEN A. ABRAHAN (Class of 2011)

  A former IT Club Officer, he is an Information Security Analyst at Optum Global Solutions. He is responsible for assessing information risk and facilitates remediation of identified vulnerabilities for IT security and IT risk across the enterprise. Also, assesses information risk and facilitates remediation of identified vulnerabilities with the systems and applications.