2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Southeast Region” 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 the Southeast region, there were 13,607 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in information technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in information technology.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in the Southeast Region

1

University of the Cumberlands
Williamsburg, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Cumberlands. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Williamsburg, Kentucky, and it awarded 9 doctorate’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Cumberlands Information Technology Report

2

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Mason University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, this large public school awarded 10 degrees to qualified doctorate’s IT students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full George Mason University Information Technology Report

3

Middle Georgia State University
Macon, Georgia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Middle Georgia State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Macon, Georgia, this medium-sized public school awarded 69 degrees to qualified doctorate’s IT students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Technology at Middle Georgia State University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology

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.