Information Technology at Columbia Southern University

If you plan to study information technology, take a look at what Columbia Southern University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Columbia Southern University is located in Orange Beach, Alabama and has a total student population of 18,533. Of the 170 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Columbia Southern University in 2021, 107 of them were information technology majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Information Technology section at the bottom of this page.

Columbia Southern University Information Technology Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in IT (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

Online Classes Are Available at Columbia Southern University

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Columbia Southern University offers distance education options for IT at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Columbia Southern University Information Technology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IT programs across the country. The following shows how Columbia Southern University performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The IT major at Columbia Southern University is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Information Technology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	9
Most Popular Online Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	14
Most Popular Online Information Technology Schools	16
Most Popular Online Information Technology Basic Certificate Schools	17
Best Value Information Technology Basic Certificate Schools	20
Best Value Information Technology Schools	22
Most Popular Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	33
	35
Best Information Technology Basic Certificate Schools	41
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	62
Most Popular Information Technology Basic Certificate Schools	92
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	101
Most Focused Information Technology Basic Certificate Schools	133
	145
Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	167
	229
Best Information Technology Schools	245
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	261

IT Student Demographics at Columbia Southern University

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IT majors at Columbia Southern University.

Columbia Southern University Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 107 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in IT from Columbia Southern University in 2021, 70% were men and 30% were women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% women. So female students are more repesented at Columbia Southern University since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia Southern University with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	23
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	44
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	34

Columbia Southern University also has a doctoral program available in IT. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That IT Grads May Go Into

A degree in IT can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AL, the home state for Columbia Southern University.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Software Applications Developers	6,210	$96,400
Systems Software Developers	4,360	$105,890
Computer Systems Analysts	3,910	$84,950
Computer and Information Systems Managers	3,200	$126,300
Information Security Analysts	1,150	$92,500

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.