Information Technology at The University of Texas at El Paso

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

UTEP is located in El Paso, Texas and approximately 24,879 students attend the school each year. Of the 140 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at El Paso in 2021, 10 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.

UTEP Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

UTEP Information Technology Rankings

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

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 UTEP 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
	57
Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	70
Best Information Technology Schools	98
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	105
	110
Best Value Information Technology Schools	170
Most Popular Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	181
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	257
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	383
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	564

IT Student Demographics at UTEP

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

UTEP Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 10 IT students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UTEP, about 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 UTEP since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 30% 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 El Paso with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	1
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UTEP 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 El Paso.

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 Adrian Garcia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.