2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Arkansas

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Arkansas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,270 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Arkansas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Arkansas

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

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

1

John Brown University
Siloam Springs, Arkansas

#3 overall quality in Arkansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, John Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. JBU is located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 masters’s IT degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Information Technology at JBU

2

Strayer University - Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas

$86,262 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - Arkansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in Arkansas list. Located in Little Rock, Arkansas, this small private for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s IT students in 2020-2021.

Full Strayer University - Arkansas Information Technology Report

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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

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