2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in District of Columbia

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 42,900 people earned their degree in information technology, making the major the 42nd most popular in the United States. In , information technology graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $50,643 and had an average of $27,140 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 552 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,996 and $38,832 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 327 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,686 and $62,807 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree 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 District of Columbia

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Information Technology in District of Columbia

1

Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia

#1 overall quality in District of Columbia

$105,843 Average Early-Career Earnings

$40,837 Average Student Debt

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgetown University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 173 diplomas to qualified masters’s it students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Information Technology at Georgetown University

2

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

$38,064 Average Student Debt

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IT Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #2 spot on the list. George Washington University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 136 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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%.

Read more about Information Technology at George Washington University

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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