Information Technology at Mercer University

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

Mercer is located in Macon, Georgia and approximately 9,006 students attend the school each year. Of the 41 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mercer 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.

Mercer Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

Online Classes Are Available at Mercer

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.

For those who are interested in distance learning, Mercer does offer online courses in IT for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Mercer Information Technology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IT programs across the country. The following shows how Mercer 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 Mercer 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
Most Popular Online Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	64
Most Popular Online Information Technology Schools	95
Most Popular Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	207
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	251
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	439
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	556

IT Student Demographics at Mercer

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

Mercer Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 6 IT students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Mercer, about 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% women. So female students are more repesented at Mercer since its program graduates 23% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 27% more racial-ethnic minorities in its IT bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Informatics

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 GA, the home state for Mercer University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Software Applications Developers	30,440	$105,240
Computer Systems Analysts	19,160	$91,060
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,990	$143,930
Systems Software Developers	12,910	$105,100
Computer Network Architects	5,390	$114,240

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 Korea2006 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.