Computer Systems Networking is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #145 out of the 343 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Computer Systems Networking Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 254 master's degrees in computer systems networking during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Computer Systems Networking School for Your Master's Degree
The networking master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality networking program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on computer systems networking students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of computer systems networking students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt computer systems networking students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized computer systems networking related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for computer systems networking students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Computer Systems Networking Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Computer Systems Networking Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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To stay competitive in today's information technology world, employees need to have training that goes beyond traditional computer programming and IT expertise.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The networking master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality networking program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
