Associate degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for IT Administration and Management (Associate)
Graduates who complete a associate degree in IT Administration and Management earn a median of $54,726 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $38,403 and $74,065. We rank the 30 U.S. colleges whose IT Administration and Management programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 1,943 graduates in all. That puts IT Administration and Management at #6 of 27 associate degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
Northern Virginia Community College, in Virginia, leads at $77,908, 35% above the median ranked school ($57,707). The gap between schools is moderate: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $48,952 and $61,164, and the lowest earns $42,789. 19 of the 30 ranked schools (63%) match or beat the national median.
Public universities dominate the top 20: 16 public, 2 private nonprofit and 2 for-profit. Across all ranked schools, 67% are public. The top 20 are spread across 16 states, with Maryland the most common (3).
The top 20 schools cost less than most: a median net price of $9,882 a year, against $11,332 across all 30 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $13,995 in federal loans, about 23% of one year of earnings. Measured against a typical high-school graduate in the same state, the median top-20 school recovers its net cost in about 0.9 years.
Showing the top 30 of 30 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, VA Public · 2-year | $77,908 | 127 | $13,547 | $9,919 | 0.5 |
| 2 | Prince George's Community College Largo, MD Public · 2-year | $76,551 | 30 † | $13,995 | $8,672 | 0.4 |
| 3 | Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion Marion, IN Private nonprofit · 4-year | $65,007 | 42 | $24,250 | $22,866 | 1.6 |
| 4 | Baker College Owosso, MI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $63,784 | 77 | $21,456 | $13,157 | 0.9 |
| 5 | Hagerstown Community College Hagerstown, MD Public · 2-year | $63,434 | 33 † | $9,383 | $6,835 | 0.5 |
| 6 | Kirkwood Community College Cedar Rapids, IA Public · 2-year | $61,544 | 44 | $12,585 | $9,705 | 0.8 |
| 7 | Dakota County Technical College Rosemount, MN Public · 2-year | $61,512 | 27 † | $12,000 | $13,548 | 1.1 |
| 8 | Southern Maine Community College South Portland, ME Public · 2-year | $61,506 | 42 | $13,549 | $11,086 | 0.9 |
| 9 | Florida State College at Jacksonville Jacksonville, FL Public · 4-year | $60,139 | 37 † | — | $4,128 | 0.3 |
| 10 | ECPI University Virginia Beach, VA For-profit · 4-year | $59,743 | 519 | $21,909 | $22,965 | 2.0 |
| 11 | College of Southern Nevada Las Vegas, NV Public · 4-year | $59,389 | 40 | — | $6,615 | 0.6 |
| 12 | Southeast Technical College Sioux Falls, SD Public · 2-year | $59,057 | 30 † | $12,400 | $17,400 | 1.6 |
| 13 | College of Western Idaho Nampa, ID Public · 4-year | $58,399 | 41 | $11,507 | $8,500 | 0.8 |
| 14 | Green River College Auburn, WA Public · 4-year | $58,294 | 55 | — | $13,803 | 1.6 |
| 15 | Community College of Baltimore County Baltimore, MD Public · 2-year | $58,293 | 45 | $17,500 | $9,844 | 1.0 |
| 16 | Springfield Technical Community College Springfield, MA Public · 2-year | $57,120 | 40 | — | $5,662 | 0.7 |
| 17 | St Petersburg College St. Petersburg, FL Public · 4-year | $55,722 | 44 | $16,377 | $1,471 | 0.1 |
| 18 | Sullivan University Louisville, KY For-profit · 4-year | $54,872 | 75 | $24,932 | $25,532 | 2.6 |
| 19 | Harrisburg Area Community College Harrisburg, PA Public · 2-year | $54,807 | 29 † | $19,264 | $14,471 | 1.6 |
| 20 | Mohawk Valley Community College Utica, NY Public · 2-year | $54,052 | 25 † | — | $8,987 | 1.0 |
| 21 | Central Maine Community College Auburn, ME Public · 2-year | $52,631 | 25 † | — | $6,975 | 1.0 |
| 22 | Delaware Technical Community College-Terry Dover, DE Public · 4-year | $52,481 | 31 † | — | $11,578 | 1.4 |
| 23 | Palm Beach State College Lake Worth, FL Public · 4-year | $47,776 | 43 | $8,000 | $9,182 | 1.4 |
| 24 | National American University-Rapid City Rapid City, SD For-profit · 4-year | $47,334 | 45 | $12,880 | $31,062 | 6.0 |
| 25 | Asher College Sacramento, CA For-profit · 2-year | $46,771 | 98 | $17,375 | $35,499 | 7.2 |
| 26 | Spokane Falls Community College Spokane, WA Public · 4-year | $46,046 | 29 † | $16,012 | $7,409 | 2.7 |
| 27 | Laurus College San Luis Obispo, CA For-profit · 4-year | $45,838 | 38 † | $32,416 | $22,733 | 5.1 |
| 28 | Bryant & Stratton College-Buffalo Buffalo, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $44,725 | 107 | $19,992 | $14,135 | 3.1 |
| 29 | Miller-Motte College-Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN For-profit · 4-year | $43,200 | 95 | $24,166 | $23,958 | 5.7 |
| 30 | The College of Westchester White Plains, NY For-profit · 4-year | $42,789 | 30 † | $20,148 | $16,296 | 4.6 |
How this ranking is built
A school appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Which programs count
- Main campuses only, one entry per institution. Scorecard reports program outcomes for the whole six-digit federal ID (OPEID6), so branch campuses share their parent’s numbers and are not listed twice.
- Only associate degree programs in IT Administration and Management (CIP 1110, the four-digit code Scorecard uses to group related programs).
- At least 25 graduates in the earnings sample. Smaller samples are left out because their medians swing too much and the counts carry a little privacy noise.
- A major gets a page only when at least 20 schools qualify. This one has 30.
- Ranked by median earnings 4 years after completing, highest first. Ties go to the larger sample, then to the school name.
- Schools missing earnings or a sample size are left out rather than estimated.
- What the numbers mean
- Earnings: median annual earnings of graduates four years after completing. The cohort completed in academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19 and was measured in calendar years 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.
- Who is counted: graduates who received federal student aid (Title IV grants or loans), and only those who were working and not enrolled in more school that year. Graduates without federal aid, those who went on to further study and those with no earnings are not in the median.
- Scorecard adds privacy noise to counts and medians and hides values it cannot protect, so a gap of a few percent between two schools is not meaningful.
- Graduates: the number of graduates in that earnings sample. A † marks fewer than 40, where the figure is less precise.
- Debt: median federal loan debt (Stafford and Grad PLUS loans disbursed at that school) of graduates who borrowed, from the 2018-19 and 2019-20 completers. Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Net price: average yearly cost after grants and scholarships for the whole institution, not this major, academic year 2023-24.
- Payback: 2 years of net price divided by how much these earnings exceed a high-school graduate’s in the school’s state. Shown only when that gap is at least $2,000, the same formula as the rest of the site.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data, June 2026 release.
Top states for IT Administration and Management earnings
Median of the school medians for states with at least 3 ranked schools. The best school in each state is shown.
| State | Median earnings | Ranked schools | Top school |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | $63,434 | 3 | Prince George's Community College |
| Florida | $55,722 | 3 | Florida State College at Jacksonville |
| New York | $44,725 | 3 | Mohawk Valley Community College |
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