Information Technology at Grand Valley State University

If you are interested in studying information technology, you may want to check out the program at Grand Valley State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

GVSU is located in Allendale, Michigan and approximately 23,350 students attend the school each year. Of the 127 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Grand Valley State University in 2021, 6 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.

GVSU Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

GVSU Information Technology Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The IT major at GVSU 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 Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	34
	36
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	48
Best Information Technology Schools	52
	85
Best Value Information Technology Schools	90
Most Popular Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	207
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	273
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	439
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	600

IT Student Demographics at GVSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IT majors at Grand Valley State University.

GVSU Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

The IT program at GVSU awarded 6 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 50% of these degrees went to men with the other 50% going to women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% women. So female students are more repesented at GVSU since its program graduates 23% more women than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in IT at GVSU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• General Computer & Information Sciences

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 MI, the home state for Grand Valley State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Software Applications Developers	29,540	$92,260
Computer Systems Analysts	15,420	$83,900
Systems Software Developers	10,320	$88,560
Computer and Information Systems Managers	9,480	$131,100
Computer Network Architects	3,300	$100,710

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
• Image Credit: By Demhem under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.