UMBC highly ranked in production of IT degrees

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:03:39 -0500
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UMBC is highly ranked in the U.S. for its degree and certificate granting in the computing sciences. The University is fourth among U.S. research universities in the production of IT degrees and certificates, according to the most recent data from the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, which is available from National Science Foundation’s WebCASPAR site. The table below displays the top ten universities in terms of total production in the Carnegie classification categories RU/VH and RU/H.

Average yearly production in 2007 and 2008
TOTAL | INSTITUTION | BS/A | MS | PHD | OTHER
552 | Penn State | 480 | 20 | 14 | 39
520 | University of Southern California | 65 | 414 | 41 | 0
513 | CMU | 124 | 331 | 58 | 0
503 | UMBC | 327 | 112 | 14 | 50
493 | Johns Hopkins University | 44 | 426 | 14 | 10
461 | New Jersey Institute Technology | 165 | 279 | 11 | 7
377 | Georgia Tech | 176 | 172 | 30 | 0
331 | Drexel | 253 | 72 | 1 | 5
329 | MIT | 160 | 129 | 21 | 20
324 | University of California-Irvine | 226 | 58 | 40 | 0

The most recent data from the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics also shows that UMBC ranks second among U.S. research universities in undergraduate IT degrees awarded, and it is the largest producer among those universities of IT graduates in Maryland, DC and Virginia. According to the same data, UMBC is second in Maryland and 31st nationally in the number of PhDs granted in IT. The numbers are averaged from the two most recent years available — 2007 and 2008.