2022 Best Value IT Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana

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 “Best Value IT Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Information Technology is the 46th most popular major in the country with 38,958 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, information technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,044 and had an average of $25,781 in loans still to pay off.

Across Louisiana, there were 244 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,000 and $22,209 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,417 and $24,684 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value IT Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in information technology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality information technology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the information technology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value IT Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana bachelor’s degree it students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Louisiana

#1

Herzing University - Kenner

Kenner, Louisiana

#2 in overall quality

$24,248 Average Net Price

$47,846 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Herzing University - Kenner. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value IT Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana list. Herzing University - Kenner is a private not-for-profit institution located in Kenner, Louisiana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Herzing University - Kenner did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” list. It costs about $24,248 for louisiana bachelor’s degree it students per year to attend Herzing University - Kenner.

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#2

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$37,841 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value IT Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Tulane University of Louisiana landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 16 degrees to qualified bachelors’s IT students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our louisiana bachelor’s degree it students list, Tulane has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Tulane University of Louisiana is $37,841 for louisiana bachelor’s degree it students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Information Technology at Tulane

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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