Information Technology at University of California - San Diego

If you plan to study information technology, take a look at what University of California - San Diego has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UCSD is located in La Jolla, California and approximately 39,576 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 212 students received a bachelor's degree in IT from UCSD.

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.

UCSD Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

UCSD Information Technology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IT programs across the country. The following shows how UCSD 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 UCSD 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	4
	5
Best Information Technology Schools	8
Most Popular Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	15
	17
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	36
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	89
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	114
Best Value Information Technology Schools	184
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	243

IT Student Demographics at UCSD

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

UCSD Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 212 IT majors earned their bachelor's degree from UCSD. Of these graduates, 68% were men and 32% were women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% women. So female students are more repesented at UCSD since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% 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 University of California - San Diego with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	92
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	19
International Students	81
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

UCSD 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

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 CA, the home state for University of California - San Diego.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Software Applications Developers	148,550	$127,950
Systems Software Developers	88,910	$131,700
Computer Systems Analysts	67,950	$103,930
Computer and Information Systems Managers	63,640	$180,250
Computer Network Architects	16,650	$127,500

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 Znode at English Wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.