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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Kentucky” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Kentucky, there were 2,232 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,597 and $36,369 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,941 and $26,734 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Kentucky” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

1

Sullivan University
Louisville, Kentucky

#10 overall quality in Kentucky

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Sullivan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Sullivan University is a small private for-profit school situated in Louisville, Kentucky. It awarded 13 bachelors’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Information Technology at Sullivan University

2

Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky

#8 overall quality in Kentucky

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Murray State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Murray State is a medium-sized public school situated in Murray, Kentucky. It awarded 27 bachelors’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Information Technology at Murray State University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’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.

Credits

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