by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended IT Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Alabama, there were 178 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,724 and $22,008 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 65 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,756 and $28,178 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended IT Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in information technology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in information technology.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Well Attended IT Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended IT Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia Southern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended IT Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s list. This fairly large school is located in Orange Beach, Alabama, and it awarded 63 bachelors’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Herzing University - Birmingham. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended IT Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s. Located in Birmingham, Alabama, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s IT students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Information Technology at Herzing University - Birmingham
Out of the 6 schools in the Most Well Attended IT Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Tuskegee University landed the #2 spot on the list. Tuskegee is a small school located in Tuskegee, Alabama that handed out 1 bachelors’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 6 schools in the Most Well Attended IT Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alabama in Huntsville landed the #4 spot on the list. Huntsville, Alabama is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s IT degrees to 27 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full University of Alabama in Huntsville Information Technology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - Alabama. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended IT Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s list. Birmingham, Alabama is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s IT degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
Full Strayer University - Alabama Information Technology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Alabama. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended IT Major in Alabama for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s IT degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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