2025 Best Information Technology Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

If you pursue a master's degree in information technology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #26 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

College Factual reviewed 4 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of information technology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 236 master's degrees in information technology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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. 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 quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school'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.

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 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 schools for information technology students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Information Technology Schools

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 Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Information Technology in Massachusetts

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in information technology.

Top Massachusetts Schools for a Master's in IT

1

Northeastern University
Boston, MA

80 Annual Graduates

$100,266 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in information technology has to take a look at Northeastern University. Located in the large city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

After graduating, it master's recipients usually earn around $100,266 in their early careers.

More information about a master’s in information technology from Northeastern University

2

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

40 Annual Graduates

Boston College is a good choice for students interested in a master's degree in information technology. Located in the city of Chestnut Hill, Boston College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in information technology from Boston College

3

Tufts University
Medford, MA

10 Annual Graduates

Tufts University is a great decision for individuals interested in a master's degree in information technology. Located in the large suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in information technology from Tufts University

4

Brandeis University
Waltham, MA

68 Annual Graduates

Brandeis University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in information technology. Brandeis is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Waltham.More information about a master’s in information technology from Brandeis University

Best Information Technology Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Information Technology Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Connecticut	153	9
Rhode Island	127	49
New Hampshire	108	14
Vermont	91	31
Maine	90	6

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Rankings in Majors Related to IT

One of 10 majors within the Computer & Information Sciences area of study, Information Technology has other similar majors worth exploring.

IT Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Computer & IS Security	138
Information Technology Management	67
Information Technology Project Management	31

Majors Similar to IT

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Computer Information Systems	1,306
Computer Science	1,260
Computer Software & Applications	845
Information Science	367
Data Processing	175
Computer Systems Networking	38
Computer Programming	6

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Craig Dennis. More about our data sources and methodologies.