Information Technology at Northern Kentucky University

What traits are you looking for in a IT school? To help you decide if Northern Kentucky University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's IT program.

NKU is located in Highland Heights, Kentucky and approximately 16,211 students attend the school each year. Of the 170 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Northern Kentucky University in 2021, 69 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.

NKU Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

NKU Information Technology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IT programs across the country. The following shows how NKU 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 NKU 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 Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	51
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	86
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	100
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	100
Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	107
	119
Best Information Technology Schools	157
Best Value Information Technology Schools	162
	188
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	236

IT Student Demographics at NKU

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

NKU Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 69 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Information Technology from NKU in 2020-2021, 81% were men and 19% were women.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in IT at NKU 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 Northern Kentucky University with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	54
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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

Related Majors

• Other Computer & Information Sciences
• 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 KY, the home state for Northern Kentucky University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Software Applications Developers	5,700	$86,300
Computer Systems Analysts	4,310	$71,500
Computer and Information Systems Managers	2,800	$119,470
Systems Software Developers	2,300	$84,300
Computer Network Architects	1,160	$77,950

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 Samvscat under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.