Information Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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

RPI is located in Troy, New York and approximately 7,501 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.

RPI Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT
• Master’s Degree in IT

RPI Information Technology Rankings

The it major at RPI 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 RPI

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the it majors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

RPI Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 63% of it bachelor's degrees went to men and 37% went to women. The typical it bachelor's degree program is made up of only 28% women. So female students are more repesented at RPI since its program graduates 9% more women than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's in it.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	14
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

RPI Information Technology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of it master's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 28% women graduate in it each year. RPI does a better job at serving the female population as it supports 5% more women than average.

In the it master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 44% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

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 NY, the home state for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Software Applications Developers	52,640	$116,830
Computer Systems Analysts	44,030	$106,320
Computer and Information Systems Managers	27,070	$190,310
Systems Software Developers	19,690	$115,120
Computer Network Architects	8,660	$113,300

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 UpstateNYer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.