2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended IT Major in the Plains States Region for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 1,394 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended IT Major in the Plains States Region for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in information technology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular information technology programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended IT Major in the Plains States Region for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended IT Major in the Plains States Region for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in the Plains States Region

1

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#22 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Capella University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended IT Major in the Plains States Region for a Doctorate. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large private for-profit school awarded 28 degrees to qualified doctorate’s IT students in 2020-2021.

Full Capella University Information Technology Report

2

University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended IT Major in the Plains States Region for a Doctorate list. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s IT degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Information Technology at University of Nebraska at Omaha

• Most Popular 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.