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Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology

Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology

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

RIT is located in Rochester, New York and approximately 16,158 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.

RIT Information Technology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in IT

RIT Information Technology Rankings

The it major at RIT 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 RIT

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

RIT Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

11% Women
23% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 89% of it bachelor's degrees went to men and 11% went to women.

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About 68% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in it at RIT 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 Rochester Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in it.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 6
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 2
White 32
International Students 3
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

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 Rochester Institute of Technology.

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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