2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Arkansas

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In 2020-2021, 40,555 people earned their degree in information technology, making the major the 42nd most popular in the United States. 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 Arkansas, there were 101 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,491 and $32,810 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,130 and $24,615 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Arkansas” 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Arkansas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Arkansas

1

Arkansas Tech University
Russellville, Arkansas

#12 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arkansas Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Arkansas list. ATU is a medium-sized public school situated in Russellville, Arkansas. It awarded 17 bachelors’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Information Technology at Arkansas Tech University

2

University of Central Arkansas
Conway, Arkansas

#7 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Arkansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Arkansas list. Located in Conway, Arkansas, this fairly large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s IT students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Information Technology at University of Central Arkansas

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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.