Information Technology at Mercer University

70% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

Every information technology school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the it program at Mercer University stacks up to those at other schools.

Mercer is located in Macon, Georgia and has a total student population of 9,006.

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.

Mercer Information Technology Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in IT

Online Classes Are Available at Mercer

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Mercer offers distance education options for it at the following degree levels:

Bachelor’s Degree

Mercer Information Technology Rankings

The it major at Mercer 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.

IT Student Demographics at Mercer

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

Mercer Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

70% Women

70% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 30% of it bachelor's degrees went to men and 70% went to women. The typical it bachelor's degree program is made up of only 28% women. So female students are more repesented at Mercer since its program graduates 42% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 29% 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 Mercer University with a bachelor's in it.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Informatics

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 GA, the home state for Mercer University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Software Applications Developers	30,440	$105,240
Computer Systems Analysts	19,160	$91,060
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,990	$143,930
Systems Software Developers	12,910	$105,100
Computer Network Architects	5,390	$114,240

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
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