Information Technology at University of South Carolina - Columbia

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

UofSC is located in Columbia, South Carolina and approximately 35,470 students attend the school each year. Of the 259 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of South Carolina - Columbia in 2021, 89 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.

UofSC Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

UofSC Information Technology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IT programs across the country. The following shows how UofSC 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 UofSC 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	39
Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	41
Best Information Technology Schools	61
	71
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	80
	128
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	142
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	158
Best Value Information Technology Schools	216
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	373

IT Student Demographics at UofSC

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

UofSC Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 89 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in IT from UofSC in 2021, 78% were men and 22% were women.

About 52% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in IT at UofSC are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 South Carolina - Columbia with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	22
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	46
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

UofSC 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 SC, the home state for University of South Carolina - Columbia.

Occupation	Jobs in SC	Average Salary in SC
Computer Systems Analysts	7,140	$80,200
Software Applications Developers	4,580	$90,830
Computer and Information Systems Managers	3,070	$120,720
Systems Software Developers	2,280	$80,250
Information Security Analysts	1,280	$75,770

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 Idibri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.