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Information Technology at Purdue University - Main Campus

Information Technology at Purdue University - Main Campus

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

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 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.

Purdue Information Technology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in IT

Purdue Information Technology Rankings

The it major at Purdue 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 Purdue

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

Purdue Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

17% Women
31% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 83% of it bachelor's degrees went to men and 17% went to women.

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About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in it at Purdue 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 - Main Campus with a bachelor's in it.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 18
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 8
White 70
International Students 13
Other Races/Ethnicities 8

Concentrations Within Information Technology

The following it concentations are available at Purdue University - Main Campus. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Purdue University - Main Campus. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded

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 - Main Campus.

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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