What Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management Graduates Earn

Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)

The three rows below are the whole earnings story Scorecard can tell about Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management: $71,646, then $90,628, then $96,720. Each median is graduate-weighted, built from 143 programs at year one and 89 at year five, and the unweighted program median sits alongside so a reader can see how much the weighting itself is doing.

Five years out, the median graduate earns $96,720, which is $25,074 more than the year-one median of $71,646 (35% growth). Set against the median field overall ($45,010 at year one, $65,763 at year five), this field starts above the pack and ends above it.

The Pell split adds a second lens on the $71,646 year-one median: graduates who received Pell Grants earn a median of $69,061, and graduates who did not earn $77,710, a gap of $8,649. Read it as a map of where each group studied and the networks they carried in, not as the degree paying two different wages for the same work.

Inside its own CIP family, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management ranks 3 of 8 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $82,542. Its closest sibling is Computer and Information Sciences, General at $96,454, below this field's $96,720. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management stands number 20 by five-year earnings and number 24 by first-year earnings, and number 168 from the lowest median debt. Those three ranks together are the field's fingerprint: high earn rank with a low debt rank is the combination students are actually shopping for, and this field's spread between them is 148 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Debt first, because earnings get the headlines: $25,802 is the median federal loan balance at graduation in Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, pooled from 139 reporting programs. Against year-one earnings of $71,646 that balance is 36% of a year's gross pay, roughly 4.3 months of it. The standard 10-year repayment at 6.52% (the 2026-27 undergraduate Direct Loan rate) runs $293 a month and $9,387 in total interest. Your own balance and rate belong in the student loan payoff calculator; the degree-level verdict belongs in the college ROI calculator and the college major ROI calculator.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

One field, many markets: the five-year median for Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management is $96,720 nationally, yet the strongest programs below run far ahead of it. The ranking keeps a 30-graduate floor under every entry, and Rochester Institute of Technology heads the list at $165,285.

High program medians concentrate in high-wage metros and selective intakes, so read $165,285 as a market fact before reading it as a quality verdict. Costs for the same programs are checkable in the degree cost calculator and the net price estimator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 8.6% of the 7,644 graduates counted at five years, so the top of the table is a thin slice and not the field's center; and the leading program's five-year median of $165,285 sits 71% above the national field median of $96,720. Its median debt, $26,124, runs above the field median of $25,802, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.