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Information Technology at Northern Illinois University

Information Technology at Northern Illinois University

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

NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and has a total student population of 16,769.

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.

NIU Information Technology Degrees Available

  • Master’s Degree in IT

NIU Information Technology Rankings

IT Student Demographics at NIU

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

NIU Information Technology Master’s Program

39% Women
2% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 61% of it master's degrees went to men and 39% went to women.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 6
International Students 97
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

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 IL, the home state for Northern Illinois University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Software Applications Developers 30,500 $96,610
Computer Systems Analysts 28,130 $89,370
Computer and Information Systems Managers 17,770 $143,900
Systems Software Developers 17,130 $108,570
Computer Network Architects 5,310 $114,780

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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