2024 Best Information Technology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Virginia

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in information technology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #54 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Information Technology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Virginia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 461 bachelor's degrees in information technology during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Information Technology School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of information technology for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality it program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on information technology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other information technology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for information technology to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized information technology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for information technology students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Information Technology Schools

The it school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Information Technology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Virginia.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Information Technology in Virginia

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in information technology.

Top Virginia Schools for a Bachelor's in IT

1

ECPI University
Virginia Beach, VA

366 Annual Graduates

$46,142 Median Starting Salary

$38,120 Median Student Debt

ECPI University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in information technology. Located in the large city of Virginia Beach, ECPI University is a private for-profit university with a large student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the it program make about $46,142 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in information technology from ECPI University

2

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA

67 Annual Graduates

$26,000 Median Student Debt

It is hard to beat Old Dominion University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in information technology. Old Dominion is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Norfolk.More information about a bachelor’s in information technology from Old Dominion University

2

University of Richmond
University of Richmond, VA

4 Annual Graduates

University of Richmond is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in information technology. Located in the midsize city of University of Richmond, URichmond is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in information technology from University of Richmond

3

Radford University
Radford, VA

1 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Radford University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in information technology. Located in the suburb of Radford, Radford is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a bachelor’s in information technology from Radford University

4

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA

7 Annual Graduates

Liberty University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in information technology. Liberty University is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Lynchburg.More information about a bachelor’s in information technology from Liberty University

Best Information Technology Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Information Technology Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	652
Georgia	224	172
Tennessee	220	7
North Carolina	213	26
South Carolina	195	29
Kentucky	187	40
Alabama	184	65
Louisiana	171	24
Mississippi	169	6
Arkansas	167	25
West Virginia	147	439

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Rankings in Majors Related to IT

One of 10 majors within the Computer & Information Sciences area of study, Information Technology has other similar majors worth exploring.

IT Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Computer & IS Security	458
Network & System Administration/Administrator	3

Majors Similar to IT

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Computer Information Systems	2,279
Information Science	433
Computer Science	338
Computer Programming	90
Computer Software & Applications	12
Computer Systems Analysis	4
Computer Systems Networking	1

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Craig Dennis. More about our data sources and methodologies.