2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Colorado

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Colorado” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Information Technology is the 42nd most popular major in the country with 40,555 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, information technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $46,525 and had an average of $26,794 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 328 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,763 and $36,239 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 32 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,095 and $24,621 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Colorado” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in information technology. That schools that top this list have a program in information technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado associate degree it students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Colorado

1

Pikes Peak Community College
Colorado Springs, Colorado

#16 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Pikes Peak Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Pikes Peak Community College is a fairly large school located in Colorado Springs, Colorado that handed out 29 associates’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.

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Arapahoe Community College
Littleton, Colorado

#21 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arapahoe Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Colorado. Arapahoe Community College is a fairly large school located in Littleton, Colorado that handed out 3 associates’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Information Technology at Arapahoe Community College

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Craig Dennis.