The Information Technology (IT) Department is headquartered on the USF Polytechnic campus, a first for the USF system which typically houses all academic colleges and departments at USF Tampa.

Information Technology is designed to bridge the gap between computer science and management information systems providing students with knowledge for rapidly changing technology. USF Polytechnic's post-baccalaureate IT professional certificate is designed for students who hold bachelor's degrees in fields other than IT, but do not seek either a master's degree or an undergraduate degree in IT. The program provides students with the knowledge and skills to change their career or begin a new career as an IT professional. Students will gain skills in program design, data structures and algorithms, operating systems, computer organization, electronic commerce, human-computer-interfaces, security management, resource management, web design, and advanced technical writing.

All classes (15 semester credit hours) taken in the IT management certificate directly apply toward the IT professional certificate. Therefore, each student having completed the IT management certificate, will only need 15 additional credit hours to complete the IT professional certificate. However, certain additional prerequisites may be required of the student prior to taking the advanced technically-oriented classes contained in the IT professional certificate.

IT courses will not be taught by teaching assistants, but by full-time faculty members of the IT department. A rare exception may occur when the department is able to engage the services of a highly qualified adjunct professor to teach a topic in which he or she has current, real world experience.