Information Technology at Purdue University Fort Wayne

If you are interested in studying information technology, you may want to check out the program at Purdue University Fort Wayne. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

PFW is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana and has a total student population of 8,093. Of the 1,135 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University Fort Wayne in 2021, 22 of them were information technology majors.

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.

PFW Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

PFW Information Technology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the IT progam at PFW compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The IT major at PFW 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	75
Most Popular Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	77
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	332

Earnings of PFW IT Graduates

The median salary of IT students who receive their bachelor's degree at PFW is $50,136. This is less than $51,250, which is the national average of all IT majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

IT Student Demographics at PFW

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IT majors at Purdue University Fort Wayne.

PFW Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 22 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in IT from PFW in 2021, 86% were men and 14% were women.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in IT at PFW are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Purdue University Fort Wayne with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	16
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

PFW also has a doctoral program available in IT. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Computer Information Systems
• Computer Science

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 IN, the home state for Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Computer User Support Specialists	10,270	$46,990
Managers	7,290	$71,560
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	6,710	$75,500
Computer and Information Systems Managers	4,860	$124,490
Computer Network Architects	3,620	$88,210

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 Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.