Programs With Usable Published Career-Outcome Evidence
Most graduate-program websites publish some kind of career claim, but the evidence is not equally useful. This comparison highlights programs in the current MSITM.com database that publish a defined cohort result, placement statistic, salary statistic, knowledge/response information, or another outcome measure with enough context to interpret it.
This is a reporting-transparency comparison, not a ranking of career success. Different programs serve different student populations, and the statistics below use different methodologies.
| Program | Published evidence | How MSITM.com reads it |
|---|---|---|
| UT Austin – MS Business Technology & AI | Class of 2025 average starting salary: $110,360. | Recent, program-specific starting-salary signal. Read alongside the program’s full career-outcomes page for denominator and role distribution. |
| Indiana Kelley – MSIS | $82,250 median base salary, $5,500 median signing bonus, and 90% receiving job offers in their degree field. | Useful because the school labels median salary separately from offer outcomes. |
| Arizona Eller – MS MIS | 96% employment six months after graduation and 92% internship placement. | Clear program-level employment and internship signals; applicants should still check the current cohort year/methodology. |
| Maryland Smith – MS Information Systems & AI | 2025 employment report; reported base salary $95,321 average / $92,500 median. | Strong methodology transparency, but salary data covered only 19.4% of job-accepting graduates, so the salary figure needs a prominent low-response caveat. |
| Syracuse – MSIS | 2025: 93% average placement rate and $79,607 average salary. | Program-specific current outcome with prior-year results also published, making trend review possible. |
| Michigan – MSI | 2025 graduates: $91,000 overall average salary and 88% employment among those reporting a job outcome. | Useful cohort report with an important caveat: outcomes were known for 52% of the graduating class. |
| Oakland – MSITM | 2024–25: 24 graduates; 96% knowledge rate; 65% employed before/within four months; $59,816 average salary with 71% salary response. | One of the more transparent small-program reports. Many students were already employed, so career progress matters more than a first-job-placement interpretation. |
| Baruch Zicklin – MSIS | 2024–25: 156 graduates; 117 outcome reporters (75%); salary mean $95,571 / median $85,000. | Employment counts have useful cohort context, but only 14 reporters supplied salary data, so the salary sample is too thin for a headline comparison. |
| Oklahoma State – MS MIS | 2023 MS MIS: 79% had employment, job offers or other plans within six months. | Useful program result, but the published 81% data-coverage figure applies across Spears master’s programs rather than specifically to MS MIS. |
| Florida – MS ISOM / IT | School reports 93% placement for the Class of 2022. | A real program result, but older than the strongest current examples; MSITM.com keeps the cohort year visible instead of presenting it as a 2026 outcome. |
Useful evidence that answers a different question
Some programs publish valuable career information that should not be forced into the table above:
- UMBC: broad alumni-market data covering 1,385 matched MSIS graduates and a $97,335 median salary—useful for longer-term alumni outcomes, not a single graduating cohort.
- UT Arlington: published average graduate earnings in years 1, 5 and 10—useful earnings trajectory, not a placement report.
- Virginia Tech MIT: reports that an average 76% of graduates across the last three cohorts received a promotion or salary increase within one year—career advancement for working professionals rather than first-job placement.
- UConn MSBAPM: publishes a $125,000 highest reported salary—interesting, but a maximum should never be compared to another program’s mean or median.
What to ask before comparing two outcome numbers
- Which graduating class does the statistic describe?
- What percentage of the class had known outcomes?
- What percentage supplied salary information?
- Is the salary a mean, median, maximum or total compensation figure?
- Is employment measured at graduation, three months, four months or six months?
- Does “placed” include continuing education, military/service or students returning to a prior employer?
- Are international and domestic outcomes reported separately?
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Last reviewed: September 18, 2026. Statistics are school-published signals using different methodologies; they should not be treated as a single standardized ranking.