2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in West Virginia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in West Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Information Technology is the 35th most popular major in the country with 31,531 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across West Virginia, there were 356 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 236 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,642 and $26,170 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in West Virginia” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in information technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in information technology.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in West Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in West Virginia”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in West Virginia

1

Strayer University - West Virginia
Scott Depot, West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - West Virginia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in West Virginia list. Located in Scott Depot, West Virginia, this small private for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s IT students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Technology at Strayer University - West Virginia

2

American Public University System
Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in West Virginia list. Charles Town, West Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s IT degrees to 224 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Information Technology at American Military University

3

Salem University
Salem, West Virginia

#12 overall quality in West Virginia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Salem University landed the #3 spot on the list. Salem, West Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s IT degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Technology at Salem

4

Shepherd University
Shepherdstown, West Virginia

#10 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Shepherd University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in West Virginia list. Shepherd University is a public institution located in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.