The 50 colleges that score highest for Information technology on public federal data: selectivity, graduate earnings, program size, academic strength and graduate depth. It is a starting point for your research, not a judgment of quality.
50 colleges · each name links to its page, with sources · data snapshot October 2, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
How we rank programs · showing the top 50 of 50 core colleges ranked, those with enough graduates and earnings data · All top-programs lists
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| Rank | College | State | What we measured | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania | PA | Median earnings $241,380 · 184 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 2 | Johns Hopkins University | MD | Median earnings $196,467 · 194 graduates last year · 11% of the school's degrees | |
| 3 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | GA | Median earnings $150,628 · 1,282 graduates last year · 28% of the school's degrees | |
| 4 | New York University | NY | Median earnings $142,495 · 727 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 5 | Carnegie Mellon University | PA | Median earnings $187,437 · 116 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 6 | Cornell University | NY | Median earnings $144,389 · 270 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 7 | University of Southern California | CA | Median earnings $185,167 (field-wide) · 36 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 8 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | MI | Median earnings $172,904 · 1,237 graduates last year · 13% of the school's degrees | |
| 9 | Rice University | TX | Median earnings $182,443 · 166 graduates last year · 13% of the school's degrees | |
| 10 | Yale University | CT | Median earnings $188,157 · 176 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MA | Median earnings $225,141 (field-wide) · 37 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 12 | The University of Texas at Austin | TX | Median earnings $155,168 · 525 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 13 | University of Florida | FL | Median earnings $126,268 · 472 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 14 | Washington University in St Louis | MO | Median earnings $177,066 (field-wide) · 25 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 15 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | VA | Median earnings $142,041 · 369 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 16 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | WA | Median earnings $114,798 · 671 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 17 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | WI | Median earnings $119,655 · 875 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 18 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | NJ | Median earnings $125,303 · 746 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 19 | Brown University | RI | Median earnings $214,479 (field-wide) · 40 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 20 | Boston University | MA | Median earnings $136,667 (field-wide) · 33 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 21 | University of California-Berkeley | CA | Median earnings $204,379 (field-wide) · 841 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 22 | Northeastern University | MA | Median earnings $163,708 · 655 graduates last year · 14% of the school's degrees | |
| 23 | University of California-San Diego | CA | Median earnings $159,487 (field-wide) · 239 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 24 | Syracuse University | NY | Median earnings $120,773 · 89 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 25 | George Washington University | DC | Median earnings $104,171 · 41 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 26 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | PA | Median earnings $112,510 · 786 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 27 | Tulane University of Louisiana | LA | Median earnings $109,498 (field-wide) · 10 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 28 | University of Notre Dame | IN | Median earnings $142,970 · 174 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 29 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | VA | Median earnings $144,103 · 517 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 30 | Purdue University-Main Campus | IN | Median earnings $99,896 · 245 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 31 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | IL | Median earnings $146,946 · 189 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 32 | University of California-Irvine | CA | Median earnings $96,347 · 90 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 33 | University of California-Davis | CA | Median earnings $138,673 · 58 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 34 | University of Miami | FL | Median earnings $102,484 · 31 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 35 | Florida State University | FL | Median earnings $93,727 · 413 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 36 | Michigan State University | MI | Median earnings $112,509 · 402 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 37 | University at Buffalo | NY | Median earnings $105,160 (field-wide) · 29 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 38 | The University of Texas at Dallas | TX | Median earnings $103,603 · 1,218 graduates last year · 24% of the school's degrees | |
| 39 | University of Central Florida | FL | Median earnings $98,526 · 850 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 40 | Clemson University | SC | Median earnings $101,301 · 179 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 41 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | OH | Median earnings $118,833 · 140 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 42 | Indiana University-Bloomington | IN | Median earnings $98,539 · 271 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 43 | Stevens Institute of Technology | NJ | Median earnings $138,468 (field-wide) · 27 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 44 | Binghamton University | NY | Median earnings $126,183 (field-wide) · 21 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 45 | Brigham Young University | UT | Median earnings $117,707 · 288 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 46 | University of Missouri-Columbia | MO | Median earnings $100,234 · 216 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 47 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | NJ | Median earnings $97,926 · 464 graduates last year · 27% of the school's degrees | |
| 48 | University of South Florida | FL | Median earnings $90,953 · 409 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 49 | Rochester Institute of Technology | NY | Median earnings $122,445 · 185 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 50 | Texas Tech University | TX | Median earnings $113,062 · 300 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees |
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