Information Technology at Michigan State University

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

Michigan State is located in East Lansing, Michigan and has a total student population of 49,695. In 2021, 40 IT majors received their bachelor's degree from Michigan State.

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.

Michigan State Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

Michigan State Information Technology Rankings

The IT major at Michigan State 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.

Earnings of Michigan State IT Graduates

The median salary of IT students who receive their bachelor's degree at Michigan State is $44,992. 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 Michigan State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IT majors at Michigan State University.

Michigan State Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 40 IT students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Michigan State, about 45% were men and 55% were women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 22% women. So female students are more repesented at Michigan State since its program graduates 33% more women than average.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in IT at Michigan State 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 Michigan State University with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	21
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Information Science
• Computer Information Systems

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 MI, the home state for Michigan State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Computer User Support Specialists	19,090	$50,640
Computer Workers	10,900	$76,400
Computer and Information Systems Managers	9,480	$131,100
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	7,240	$77,580
Managers	6,370	$98,780

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 Jeffness under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.