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2023 Most Popular Online Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

3 Colleges
$76,049 Avg Salary
$21,479 Avg Student Debt

With 40,555 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, information technology is the #3 most popular major in the United States.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which computer science program is right for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Computer Science Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to see which online graduate certificate programs were the most popular for computer science students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Information Technology Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named University of Phoenix - Arizona the most popular online school in the Southwest Region for information technology students working on their graduate certificate. UOPX - Arizona is a very large private for-profit school located in the city of Tempe.

Women make up 36% of the IT majors at the school.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the distant town of Stillwater, OSU is a public school with a very large student population.

About 67% of the students majoring in IT at the school are women while 33% are male.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Sam Houston State University is a great place for information technology students working on their online graduate certificate. Located in the distant town of Huntsville, SHSU is a public college with a very large student population.

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Explore the most popular online information technology schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 1,208
Arizona 811
Oklahoma 53
New Mexico 36

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One of 10 majors within the computer science area of study, information technology has other similar majors worth exploring.

IT Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Computer & IS Security 22,829
Network & System Administration/Administrator 5,501
Information Technology Management 4,009
Computer Support Specialist 3,176
System, Networking, & LAN/WAN Management/Manager 2,077
Information Technology Project Management 2,076
Web/Multimedia Management & Webmaster 887

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer Information Systems 88,434
Computer Science 59,565
Information Science 18,325
Computer Systems Networking 14,700
Computer Software & Applications 14,336

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Craig Dennis.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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