A University of Wollongong spokesperson said that while its intake fell 6 percent this year, the figure is much lower than the average fall across NSW.

In response to what it deemed to be market demand, the university has this year introduced a Multimedia and Game Development specialization to the Bachelor of Computer Science degree.

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has also introduced a new, combined degree (Bachelor of Computer Science/Digital Media) this year in a bid to capture the increasingly divergent interests of potential IT students.

Its Bachelor of Computer Science degree remains its most popular though, with 256 preliminary enrolments this year.

In Victoria, RMIT also reported a slight drop this year, but said that overall its enrolment figures have been fairly consistent. Head of computer Sciences RMIT, Heiko Schroder, said the school lowered its entrance cut-off scores slightly this year, but would not specify exact figures.