Information Technology at University of Maryland - Baltimore County

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

UMBC is located in Baltimore, Maryland and approximately 13,497 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,725 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Maryland - Baltimore County in 2021, 80 of them were information technology majors.

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.

UMBC Information Technology Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in IT (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

UMBC Information Technology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IT programs across the country. The following shows how UMBC performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The IT major at UMBC 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
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	49
	366

Earnings of UMBC IT Graduates

The median salary of IT students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMBC is $41,347. This is less than $51,250, which is the national average of all IT majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

IT Student Demographics at UMBC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IT majors at University of Maryland - Baltimore County.

UMBC Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 80 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in IT from UMBC in 2021, 65% were men and 35% were women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 22% women. So female students are more repesented at UMBC since its program graduates 13% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 33% 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 Maryland - Baltimore County with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	28
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	11
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

UMBC also has a doctoral program available in IT. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Computer Science
• Information 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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland - Baltimore County.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	16,220	$108,190
Managers	14,450	$122,050
Computer Workers	13,720	$113,330
Computer User Support Specialists	10,620	$54,880
Computer and Information Systems Managers	10,590	$154,870

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 Tim Menzies under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.