Information Technology at Western Illinois University

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

WIU is located in Macomb, Illinois and approximately 7,490 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 12 IT majors received their bachelor's degree from WIU.

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.

WIU Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT

WIU Information Technology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the IT progam at WIU 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 WIU 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 Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	23
Best Value Information Technology Schools	57
Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	78
	82
Best Information Technology Schools	113
	144
Most Popular Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	166
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	212
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	351
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	457

IT Student Demographics at WIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IT majors at Western Illinois University.

WIU Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 12 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Information Technology from WIU in 2020-2021, 75% were men and 25% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% 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 Western Illinois University with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

WIU 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 IL, the home state for Western Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Software Applications Developers	30,500	$96,610
Computer Systems Analysts	28,130	$89,370
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,770	$143,900
Systems Software Developers	17,130	$108,570
Computer Network Architects	5,310	$114,780

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 IlliniGradResearch under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.