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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Information Technology Management for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 4,009 people earned their degree in information technology management, making the major the 180th most popular in the United States.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 354 information technology management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 142 information technology management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality information technology management programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the information technology management program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Information Technology Management for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree vets studying information technology management.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Santa Cruz. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Information Technology Management for a Bachelor’s. University of California - Santa Cruz is a fairly large school located in Santa Cruz, California that handed out 135 bachelors’s information technology management degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UC Santa Cruz, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Information Technology Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of California - Santa Cruz supports 19,161 students, and 273 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 114 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,631. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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