2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Louisiana

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended IT Major in Louisiana for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Louisiana, there were 213 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,778 and $28,279 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended IT Major in Louisiana for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in information technology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in information technology.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended IT Major in Louisiana for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended IT Major in Louisiana for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Louisiana

1

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended IT Major in Louisiana for a Master’s list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified masters’s IT students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Read more about Information Technology at Tulane

2

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

#17 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended IT Major in Louisiana for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Orleans landed the #2 spot on the list. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s IT degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

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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.