Capella's BS in Information Technology is an undergraduate degree of at least 90 program points, a minimum of 27 at the 3000 level or above, with two FlexPath specializations: General Information Technology, and Information Assurance and Cybersecurity. The capstone follows that choice, IT-FPX4993 for cybersecurity, IT-FPX4997 plus IT-FPX4998 for general IT. The BS in Computer Science is a separate degree carrying the CSC-FPX codes. Every course is passed by deliverables scored against a four-level guide, so a working build still has to be defended in writing. We build to the Distinguished descriptors inside 24 to 48 hours, revising free until the criteria clear.
What the Capella BS in IT actually demands
Students looking for Capella BS IT class help usually arrive with one assessment prompt and a folder of screenshots. The degree underneath explains why the criteria read the way they do. Most of the work is hands-on: you configure something, model something, write code, capture what it produced, then explain it to a reader who was not standing behind you.
The failure runs both ways. Help desk veterans can build, and they lose criteria on the write-up: a screenshot is not an argument and no evaluator can mark a terminal window. Strong writers lose criteria on evidence, submitting three fluent pages about segmentation with nothing in them showing a subnet was ever calculated. The sequence forces both halves: IT-FPX1006 and IT-FPX1170 set the professional frame, the 2000-level block installs operating systems, databases, Java, and networking, and the 3000-level courses ask you to defend a design rather than list features.
The 90-point shape and the 3000-level floor
Two numbers govern planning: at least 90 program points, a minimum of 27 of them at the 3000 level or above. Students find the second late, because points accumulate easily at the 1000 and 2000 level and you can reach the high eighties with the upper-division tally short. Track them separately from session one.
Point values are not uniform either. Most IT-FPX courses carry 3 points while IT-FPX2230 carries 1.5, so a pairing is rarely two equal halves of a twelve-week session. Only your program evaluation knows your general education requirements, transfer credit, and course values.
| Route | Capstone | Deliverables | What it costs you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shared IT core | None | Concepts, ethics, operating systems, databases, Java, networking, web, architecture | Spent before you commit, so the choice can wait |
| General Information Technology | IT-FPX4997 then IT-FPX4998 | Infrastructure, data, and applications, plus a project proposed then executed | Two sessions at the end, on a scope that must survive both |
| Information Assurance and Cybersecurity | IT-FPX4993 | Defense, ethical hacking, forensics, policy, scripting, organizational security | A narrower field; courses assume the networking core stuck |
| BS in Computer Science | CSC-FPX4900 then CSC-FPX4902 | Languages, algorithms, machine learning, computer vision | The most mathematics, least room to write past a weak build |
Choosing between general IT, cybersecurity, and computer science
Make the choice on evidence, not on which word looks better on a resume. General Information Technology buys breadth: infrastructure, data, and applications, enough of each to hold a conversation. The cost is that nothing goes deep, and the split capstone commits your final two sessions to a scope you fixed in the first.
Information Assurance and Cybersecurity buys depth: seven specialization courses in one field, from cyber defense and ethical hacking through forensics and policy, closing in a single capstone. Depth is unforgiving: security courses assume the networking and operating system core is still available, and a student who cleared IT-FPX2280 thinly stalls in IT-FPX4080, where that material is the floor. IT-FPX4803 sits on both plans, which makes it the safest upper-division course to take before deciding.
Computer science is a different degree, not a harder version of this one. Its courses grade correctness and reasoning about algorithms, and a weak implementation cannot be rescued by strong prose.
Send the IT course you are in
The code and the scoring guide are enough to start. First premium original sample free, back inside 24 to 48 hours.
Every IT and computer science course we cover
Thirty-eight pages, grouped the way a program evaluation groups them. Each covers what its criteria grade, the evidence required, and the mistakes that cost a level.
Core, both IT specializations
IT-FPX1006, IT-FPX1170, IT-FPX2180, IT-FPX2230, IT-FPX2249, IT-FPX2280, IT-FPX3240, IT-FPX3249
Core for general IT, specialization for cybersecurity
Information Assurance and Cybersecurity specialization
IT-FPX4070, IT-FPX4071, IT-FPX4073, IT-FPX4075, IT-FPX4076, IT-FPX4079, IT-FPX4080
Capstones
IT-FPX4993, IT-FPX4997, IT-FPX4998
Further IT-FPX courses in the catalog
IT-FPX3180, IT-FPX3358, IT-FPX4157, IT-FPX4250, IT-FPX4345, IT-FPX4525, IT-FPX4527, IT-FPX4535, IT-FPX4545, IT-FPX4575, IT-FPX4775, IT-FPX4780, IT-FPX4792
BS in Computer Science, the CSC-FPX codes
CSC-FPX4010, CSC-FPX4020, CSC-FPX4030, CSC-FPX4040, CSC-FPX4900, CSC-FPX4902
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How a hands-on deliverable still gets scored against criteria
This is what separates Basic from Distinguished in a technical course. FlexPath grades four levels against written criteria, read by someone who cannot run your code, log into your lab, or see your screen. A query returning the right rows earns nothing until the document says which tables it joined and why, and a hardened server earns nothing until it names the benchmark the settings came from.
The move is the same everywhere here: state the choice, name the option you rejected, give the constraint that decided it, admit the cost, and say what would reverse it. "I enabled multifactor authentication" is Basic, because nobody was going to argue. "Hardware tokens were chosen over push approval because approval fatigue defeated the second factor in the incident behind this project, at a per-user cost and a replacement process for lost tokens, and the decision reverses if turnover makes token logistics dominate" is the paragraph the guide wants. Caption every figure and redact anything real. The scoring guide guide and the FlexPath writing manual carry the rest.
Certifications are a related track, not this degree
Almost every IT student asks about certifications. The honest framing is a parallel track that touches the degree rather than a part of it. IT-FPX3180, Pathways to Certificate-Based Professional Development, is a course about that track, graded like everything else. The exams are owned, priced, and scheduled by the vendors, so any alignment with a specific one belongs to your advisor and your catalog year.
What each measures differs. An exam wants recall under time pressure, with no partial credit for reasoning; a criterion wants a defended decision, with the reasoning being most of the mark. Running both at once is efficient on content and inefficient on habit.
Where BS IT students stall
Rarely in the first courses. The stall lands where two build-heavy courses share the same twelve weeks. A student runs IT-FPX2249 beside IT-FPX3240 because both are core and both look like programming. Both want long uninterrupted evenings, and code that will not compile does not care about a date. Week seven arrives with two half-built projects, and submitting an attempt in either buys a two-business-day wait for evaluation while submit-on-grade holds the next assessment. Pair a build course with an argument course such as IT-FPX4076 instead.
- Upper-division points counted last. The 27-point floor at the 3000 level is a separate tally from the 90.
- No environment before week one. A virtual machine, a database engine, and an editor cost one evening: free in week zero, expensive in week six.
- Employer equipment used for lab work. Evidence you cannot publish, and a redaction problem when it is due.
- Screenshots with no captions. An uncaptioned image is decoration; an evidence criterion reads it as absent.
- A capstone scope chosen for interest rather than hours. Count the evenings you have, then cut.
How the courses sequence
You set the order in FlexPath, and not every order works equally well. Start with IT-FPX1006, which installs the vocabulary and documentation habits later criteria assume. Take IT-FPX2180 and IT-FPX2280 early and properly, because operating systems and networking are the floor under every security course, and passing them thinly is a debt collected at the 4000 level. Databases and Java come next, then the 3000-level web and architecture pair.
The specialization block goes in the middle third and the capstone last by design. Two courses at a time is the ceiling and sessions bill flat across twelve weeks, so put one building course beside one arguing course and stagger submissions to keep something in the evaluation queue. What your enrollment agreement permits is a counselor question. The rotation playbook works the timing through, and the pacing math sits on the expedite page.
BS IT questions students actually ask
Is the BS in Computer Science a specialization of the BS in IT?
No. It is a separate undergraduate degree with its own CSC-FPX codes and a two-part capstone in CSC-FPX4900 and CSC-FPX4902. The BS in Information Technology runs two FlexPath specializations, General Information Technology and Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, and neither is computer science. A CSC course on an IT plan may not count where you need it, so check the program evaluation before you register.
Do I have to build the thing, or can I just write about it?
The verbs in your scoring guide settle it. Design, describe, and recommend ask for a document. Configure, implement, create, and demonstrate ask for something that exists and evidence that it does. Where a build is required, use your own equipment or a free tier rather than an employer's. The artifact is still not the grade: a perfect configuration with no written justification lands below a modest one whose choices are defended.
Do the certification courses get me an actual certification?
Treat them as separate until your own courseroom says otherwise. IT-FPX3180 is a course about certificate-based professional development, graded by deliverables scored against a guide. The exams are run, priced, and scheduled by the vendors, so any alignment with a specific one is a question for your advisor and your catalog year. Exam study and coursework overlap in content but not in evidence.