Information Technology at University of South Carolina - Upstate

If you are interested in studying information technology, you may want to check out the program at University of South Carolina - Upstate. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

USC Upstate is located in Spartanburg, South Carolina and has a total student population of 6,038. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 31 students received a bachelor's degree in IT from USC Upstate.

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.

USC Upstate Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

USC Upstate Information Technology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IT programs across the country. The following shows how USC Upstate 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 USC Upstate 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 Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	59
Most Popular Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	93
Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	150
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	153
	170
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	195
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	198
Best Information Technology Schools	220
Best Value Information Technology Schools	234
	257

IT Student Demographics at USC Upstate

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

USC Upstate Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 58% of IT bachelor's degrees went to men and 42% went to women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% women. So female students are more repesented at USC Upstate since its program graduates 15% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% 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 - Upstate with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

USC Upstate 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 - Upstate.

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 Dfscgt21 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.