2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Maine, there were 133 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,168 and $31,564 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree it students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Maine

1

Thomas College
Waterville, Maine

#15 overall quality in Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Thomas College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine. Thomas College is a small school located in Waterville, Maine that handed out 6 masters’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Information Technology at Thomas College

2

University of Maine at Augusta
Augusta, Maine

#14 overall quality in Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Augusta. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Maine. This small school is located in Augusta, Maine, and it awarded 28 masters’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Information Technology at UMA

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in the New England Region
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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.