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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maryland” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Information Technology is the 35th most popular major in the country with 33,179 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Maryland, there were 447 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 42 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,878 and $14,082 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maryland” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maryland
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maryland”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Baltimore City Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Baltimore City Community College is a small school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 32 associates’s it degrees in 2021-2022.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Southern Maryland. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IT Major in Maryland list. La Plata, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s it degrees to 10 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *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.