Ranked #26 in popularity, information technology is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 25 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for information technology students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 2,292 master's degrees in information technology to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Information Technology School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of information technology for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality it program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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 include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 information technology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of information technology 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 information technology 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 information technology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for information technology students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Information Technology Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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University of Virginia - Main Campus is a good option for students interested in a master's degree in information technology. University of Virginia is a very large public university located in the medium-sized suburb of Charlottesville.
Master's recipients from the information technology degree program at University of Virginia - Main Campus get $68,503 more than the typical college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
American Public University System is a good option for students interested in a master's degree in information technology. American Military University is a very large private for-profit university located in the fringe town of Charles Town.
Information Technology master's degree recipients from American Public University System receive an earnings boost of about $7,509 over the average income of information technology graduates.
It is difficult to beat Marymount University if you want to pursue a master's degree in information technology. Marymount is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Arlington.
Master's recipients from the information technology major at Marymount University make $7,932 above the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
UAH is a moderately-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of Huntsville.
Information Technology master's degree recipients from University of Alabama in Huntsville receive an earnings boost of approximately $10,199 above the average earnings of information technology majors.
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
Your choice of information technology for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality it program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
