Information Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas

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

UT Dallas is located in Richardson, Texas and approximately 28,669 students attend the school each year. Of the 786 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2021, 248 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.

UT Dallas Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

UT Dallas Information Technology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the IT progam at UT Dallas compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The IT major at UT Dallas 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	9
Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	19
	25
Best Information Technology Schools	27
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	27
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	43
	66
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	139
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	168
Best Value Information Technology Schools	212

IT Student Demographics at UT Dallas

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

UT Dallas Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

The IT program at UT Dallas awarded 248 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 60% of these degrees went to men with the other 40% going to women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% women. So female students are more repesented at UT Dallas since its program graduates 13% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 35% 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 The University of Texas at Dallas with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	137
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	29
White	38
International Students	17
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

UT Dallas 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 TX, the home state for The University of Texas at Dallas.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Software Applications Developers	71,260	$108,760
Computer Systems Analysts	51,710	$97,900
Systems Software Developers	28,720	$110,740
Computer and Information Systems Managers	22,350	$154,650
Computer Network Architects	12,560	$119,340

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 Stan9999 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.