For today’s students, technology is omnipresent. They’re able to conduct many aspects of their personal lives through their mobile phone or laptop, however, this often isn’t reflected in their university experiences.

With the typical university environment made up predominately of fee-paying students and a significantly smaller percentage of full-time employees, higher education institutions now have to consider this group as their customers and understand how they can best serve them.

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Higher education institutions are often the gate keepers of huge volumes of data, ranging from student and staff data, to research data. Unfortunately, managing, accessing, sharing, and protecting this vast amount of data, and connecting the multiple siloed systems in which it is stored, presents a significant IT challenge.

As my previous blog highlighted, universities and colleges are facing significant cyber security challenges, in part due to the sheer volumes of personal data they process. Consequently, it’s vital they implement the stringent processes and policies needed to ensure they handle data securely and in compliance with GDPR.

Early Career Opportunities 

Want to start a career that matters? Following graduation, you can apply your skills to a variety of technical roles, including software development, quality development, product support, and sales engineering. Joining InterSystems early in your career will lay a foundation for a robust and fulfilling technical career.

Not a computer science major? No problem – we hire technical employees from a variety of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines.

InterSystems University Outreach Program works with university and college faculty to enhance their curricula with InterSystems’ products and technologies. The program provides free software licenses for use in courses, as well as free educational resources and technical support to help get started.