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Identifying and Evaluating Information Technology Baccalaureate Degree Programs per IT2017

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SIGITE 2012 included a report1 of Information Technology (IT) bachelor's degree programs in the USA as compared to the IT2008 Model Curriculum2. New IT curriculum guidelines were released by the ACM in late 20173. This paper describes the process for identifying and evaluating IT bachelor's programs in the United States per the new 2017 IT curriculum guidelines. Due to widespread variation in the names of academic degree programs, one cannot simply count those named "Information Technology." This research, funded by SIGITE, first defined a framework for evaluating the compliance of an IT program to the standard of the IT2017 document. This framework was then applied throughout this research. We first compiled a list of prospective IT programs to research. Each institution on the list was then researched by looking at their webpage in search of a list of computing majors listed at that institution. If, at a glance, these program's required courses looked similar to those required in an IT program, the program was evaluated and given a numerical compliance factor. This compliance factor was calculated using the assessment form that is included in this document. The results of this analysis are presented.

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Lunt, B. M., Hansen, A. Neupane, B., Ofori, R., Identifying and Evaluating Information Technology Bachelpr's Degree Programs. In Proceedings of the 2012 Sigite Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Lunt, B. M., Ekstrom, J. J., Gorka, S., Hilsop, G. Kamali. R., Lawson, E., Leblanc, R., Miller, J. and Reichgelt, H. Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Technology, ACM, 2008, http://www.acm.org//education/curricula/IT2008%20Curriculum.pdf
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    SIGITE '19: Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIG Conference on Information Technology Education
    September 2019
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    ISBN:9781450369213
    DOI:10.1145/3349266
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