2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Plains States Region

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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 the Plains States region, there were 2,584 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,563 and $34,120 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 73 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in information technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in information technology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree it students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in the Plains States Region

1

Dakota State University
Madison, South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dakota State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Plains States Region. Dakota State University is a small public school situated in Madison, South Dakota. It awarded 12 doctorate’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Information Technology at Dakota State University

2

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#22 overall quality in Plains States

$106,301 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Capella University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IT Major in the Plains States Region. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out doctorate’s IT degrees to 61 students in 2020-2021.

Full Capella University Information Technology Report

• Most Focused Doctor’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.