Information Technology at George Mason University

If you plan to study information technology, take a look at what George Mason University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

GMU is located in Fairfax, Virginia and approximately 38,541 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Information Technology section at the bottom of this page.

GMU Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT
• Master’s Degree in IT

Online Classes Are Available at GMU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, GMU does offer online courses in it for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

GMU Information Technology Rankings

The it major at GMU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Information Technology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

There were 10 students who received their doctoral degrees in it, making the school the #6 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

IT Student Demographics at GMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the it majors at George Mason University.

GMU Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 73% of it bachelor's degrees went to men and 27% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% more racial-ethnic minorities in its it bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor's in it.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	190
Black or African American	51
Hispanic or Latino	31
White	84
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	34

GMU Information Technology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 58% of it master's degrees went to men and 42% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from George Mason University with a master's in it.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	14
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• General Computer & Information Sciences

Careers That IT Grads May Go Into

A degree in it can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for George Mason University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Software Applications Developers	38,110	$113,690
Systems Software Developers	27,800	$119,860
Computer Systems Analysts	26,800	$102,290
Information Security Analysts	14,180	$111,780
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,450	$173,290

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Lucien Dalarun under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.