Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for IT Administration and Management (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in IT Administration and Management earn a median of $85,063 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $59,326 and $117,649. We rank the 61 U.S. colleges whose IT Administration and Management programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 5,254 graduates in all. That puts IT Administration and Management at #22 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
Rochester Institute of Technology, in New York, leads at $138,679, 64% above the median ranked school ($84,595). The gap between schools is moderate: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $72,761 and $95,958, and the lowest earns $52,934. 29 of the 61 ranked schools (48%) match or beat the national median.
The top 20 mix sectors: 9 public, 10 private nonprofit and 1 for-profit. The top 20 are spread across 13 states, with New York the most common (3).
The top 20 schools cost more than most: a median net price of $21,375 a year, against $17,028 across all 61 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $24,874 in federal loans, about 25% 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 1.4 years.
Showing the top 50 of 61 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $138,679 | 61 | $27,000 | $34,906 | 1.4 |
| 2 | Western Governors University Salt Lake City, UT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $129,303 | 238 | $10,110 | $12,548 | 0.6 |
| 3 | Bentley University Waltham, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $122,075 | 27 † | $24,747 | $37,930 | 1.9 |
| 4 | Brigham Young University Provo, UT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $118,606 | 59 | $7,400 | $15,564 | 0.8 |
| 5 | George Washington University Washington, DC Private nonprofit · 4-year | $112,554 | 44 | $16,404 | $36,586 | 2.0 |
| 6 | Champlain College Burlington, VT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $112,282 | 119 | $27,000 | $35,860 | 1.9 |
| 7 | Capella University Minneapolis, MN For-profit · 4-year | $109,194 | 134 | $31,613 | $17,956 | 1.0 |
| 8 | University of Miami Coral Gables, FL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $102,484 | 28 † | $12,250 | $37,244 | 2.2 |
| 9 | Drexel University Philadelphia, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $101,488 | 34 † | $31,000 | $38,509 | 2.4 |
| 10 | University of Maryland Global Campus Adelphi, MD Public · 4-year | $100,937 | 313 | $22,663 | $22,063 | 1.4 |
| 11 | The University of Tampa Tampa, FL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $99,980 | 34 † | $25,000 | $36,211 | 2.2 |
| 12 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA Public · 4-year | $98,637 | 314 | $26,000 | $32,875 | 2.1 |
| 13 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ Public · 4-year | $98,055 | 142 | $31,250 | $14,967 | 1.0 |
| 14 | Georgia College & State University Milledgeville, GA Public · 4-year | $97,653 | 55 | $20,981 | $20,686 | 1.3 |
| 15 | CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York, NY Public · 4-year | $96,069 | 83 | $13,625 | $3,203 | 0.2 |
| 16 | Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA Public · 4-year | $95,958 | 71 | $25,000 | $15,048 | 1.0 |
| 17 | University at Albany Albany, NY Public · 4-year | $95,885 | 57 | $22,250 | $17,167 | 1.1 |
| 18 | University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA Public · 4-year | $94,589 | 88 | $20,020 | $17,890 | 1.2 |
| 19 | National University San Diego, CA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $94,203 | 77 | $32,813 | $22,878 | 1.6 |
| 20 | North Carolina A & T State University Greensboro, NC Public · 4-year | $93,564 | 44 | $27,000 | $10,846 | 0.7 |
| 21 | Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI Public · 4-year | $93,480 | 28 † | $27,000 | $14,182 | 1.0 |
| 22 | Ferris State University Big Rapids, MI Public · 4-year | $91,678 | 48 | $22,535 | $8,624 | 0.6 |
| 23 | Norwich University Northfield, VT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $90,628 | 40 | $26,000 | $22,257 | 1.7 |
| 24 | Lindenwood University Saint Charles, MO Private nonprofit · 4-year | $89,675 | 67 | $23,842 | $19,638 | 1.4 |
| 25 | The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX Public · 4-year | $88,585 | 192 | $21,500 | $10,836 | 0.8 |
| 26 | American Public University System Charles Town, WV For-profit · 4-year | $86,275 | 351 | $26,841 | $9,597 | 0.7 |
| 27 | Central Connecticut State University New Britain, CT Public · 4-year | $86,230 | 27 † | $23,500 | $16,857 | 1.4 |
| 28 | Lewis University Romeoville, IL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $86,015 | 27 † | $22,000 | $17,028 | 1.4 |
| 29 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX Public · 4-year | $85,477 | 76 | $18,918 | $21,315 | 1.7 |
| 30 | Bellevue University Bellevue, NE Private nonprofit · 4-year | $84,901 | 158 | $19,922 | $17,550 | 1.5 |
| 31 | New England Institute of Technology East Greenwich, RI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $84,595 | 46 | $27,000 | $36,483 | 3.3 |
| 32 | University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO Public · 4-year | $84,428 | 30 † | $18,150 | $14,462 | 1.2 |
| 33 | Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, CO For-profit · 4-year | $84,277 | 143 | $34,826 | $16,745 | 1.5 |
| 34 | Metropolitan State University Saint Paul, MN Public · 4-year | $83,558 | 34 † | $22,786 | $16,863 | 1.5 |
| 35 | Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI Public · 4-year | $82,886 | 32 † | $22,500 | $15,407 | 1.3 |
| 36 | Columbia Basin College Pasco, WA Public · 4-year | $81,742 | 30 † | $18,200 | $8,317 | 0.8 |
| 37 | Wilmington University New Castle, DE Private nonprofit · 4-year | $81,537 | 59 | $20,284 | $15,644 | 1.4 |
| 38 | Saint Cloud State University Saint Cloud, MN Public · 4-year | $80,331 | 80 | $24,516 | $13,529 | 1.3 |
| 39 | Baker College Owosso, MI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $79,805 | 139 | $31,153 | $13,157 | 1.2 |
| 40 | Dakota State University Madison, SD Public · 4-year | $78,637 | 86 | $24,000 | $21,057 | 2.0 |
| 41 | Pace University New York, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $77,902 | 54 | $24,000 | $30,892 | 2.9 |
| 42 | Columbia Southern University Orange Beach, AL For-profit · 4-year | $77,738 | 29 † | $19,843 | $14,580 | 1.3 |
| 43 | St. John's University-New York Queens, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $77,433 | 35 † | $22,372 | $29,999 | 2.9 |
| 44 | University of Maryland-Baltimore County Baltimore, MD Public · 4-year | $74,808 | 87 | $19,500 | $16,467 | 1.8 |
| 45 | Davenport University Grand Rapids, MI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $73,487 | 68 | $27,875 | $17,707 | 1.8 |
| 46 | Green River College Auburn, WA Public · 4-year | $72,761 | 48 | — | $13,803 | 1.7 |
| 47 | Florida State College at Jacksonville Jacksonville, FL Public · 4-year | $72,742 | 43 | $26,061 | $4,128 | 0.4 |
| 48 | St Petersburg College St. Petersburg, FL Public · 4-year | $71,668 | 142 | $26,285 | $1,471 | 0.2 |
| 49 | University of Phoenix-Arizona Phoenix, AZ For-profit · 4-year | $71,385 | 173 | $41,154 | $13,520 | 1.5 |
| 50 | St. Joseph's University-New York Brooklyn, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $71,364 | 31 † | $21,120 | $19,035 | 2.1 |
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 bachelor's 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 61.
- 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: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | $98,637 | 3 | Drexel University |
| Texas | $85,477 | 3 | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| Minnesota | $83,558 | 3 | Capella University |
| Michigan | $82,886 | 5 | Michigan Technological University |
| New York | $77,433 | 9 | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Florida | $71,668 | 7 | University of Miami |
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