Information Technology at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

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

UCCS is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and approximately 12,380 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 21 IT majors received their bachelor's degree from UCCS.

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.

UCCS Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT
• Doctorate Degree in IT

UCCS Information Technology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the IT progam at UCCS compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The IT major at UCCS 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	4
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	93

IT Student Demographics at UCCS

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IT majors at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

UCCS Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

The IT program at UCCS awarded 21 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 86% of these degrees went to men with the other 14% going to women.

About 52% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in IT at UCCS are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its IT bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	11
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

UCCS also has a doctoral program available in IT. In 2021, 1 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Computer Software & Applications
• 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 CO, the home state for University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Occupation	Jobs in CO	Average Salary in CO
Computer Workers	16,440	$102,470
Computer User Support Specialists	14,390	$60,440
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	11,610	$84,170
Managers	8,940	$138,490
Computer and Information Systems Managers	7,600	$164,220

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 Jeffrey M Foster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.