Information Technology at Naval Postgraduate School

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

Naval Postgraduate School is located in Monterey, California and approximately 2,866 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.

Naval Postgraduate School Information Technology Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in IT

Online Classes Are Available at Naval Postgraduate School

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Naval Postgraduate School offers distance education options for IT at the following degree levels:

Naval Postgraduate School Information Technology Rankings

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

There were 0 student who received their doctoral degrees in IT, making the school the #8 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

IT Student Demographics at Naval Postgraduate School

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IT majors at Naval Postgraduate School.

Naval Postgraduate School Information Technology Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 41 students earned a master's degree in IT from Naval Postgraduate School. About 12% of these graduates were women and the other 88% were men.

Of the students who received a IT master's degree from Naval Postgraduate School, 56% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the IT master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 44% of degree recipients. That is 6% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Naval Postgraduate School with a master's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	23
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Information Science
• Other Computer & Information Sciences
• Computer Software & Applications
• 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 CA, the home state for Naval Postgraduate School.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Computer Workers	74,690	$103,270
Computer User Support Specialists	70,510	$66,350
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Computer and Information Systems Managers	63,640	$180,250
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	36,900	$97,810

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.