Information Technology at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

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

UW Seattle is located in Seattle, Washington and approximately 48,149 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,011 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Washington - Seattle Campus in 2021, 286 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.

UW Seattle Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT
• Master’s Degree in IT
• Doctorate Degree in IT

UW Seattle Information Technology Rankings

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

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 UW Seattle 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 Master’s Degree Schools	3
	3
	3
Best Information Technology Doctor’s Degree Schools	3
Best Value Information Technology Doctor’s Degree Schools	4
Most Popular Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	5
Most Popular Information Technology Doctor’s Degree Schools	7
Best Information Technology Schools	9
Most Popular Information Technology Master’s Degree Schools	9
Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	10
Most Focused Information Technology Doctor’s Degree Schools	10
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	11
	12
Best Value Information Technology Master’s Degree Schools	13
	20
Most Focused Information Technology Master’s Degree Schools	56
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	85
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	112
Best Value Information Technology Schools	140
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	176

In 2021, 130 students received their master’s degree in IT from UW Seattle. This makes it the #9 most popular school for IT master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 9 students who received their doctoral degrees in IT, making the school the #7 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

IT Student Demographics at UW Seattle

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IT majors at University of Washington - Seattle Campus.

UW Seattle Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 286 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Information Technology from UW Seattle in 2020-2021, 49% were men and 51% were women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% women. So female students are more repesented at UW Seattle since its program graduates 24% 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 Washington - Seattle Campus with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	111
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	14
White	80
International Students	46
Other Races/Ethnicities	24

UW Seattle Information Technology Master’s Program

Of the 130 students who graduated with a master’s in IT from UW Seattle in 2021, 16% were men and 84% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Washington - Seattle Campus with a master's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	16
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	41
International Students	48
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

UW Seattle also has a doctoral program available in IT. In 2021, 9 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Artificial Intelligence
• General Computer & Information Sciences
• Informatics

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 WA, the home state for University of Washington - Seattle Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Software Applications Developers	53,860	$131,790
Computer Systems Analysts	17,970	$96,860
Systems Software Developers	16,130	$121,250
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,690	$159,290
Computer Network Architects	5,800	$111,960

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 Joe Mabel under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.