Your Career Begins with an ISM Degree in Network Administration

Businesses have an enormous reliance on their networks in order to maintain productivity and profitability. As a network administrator, you will be accountable for ensuring your business’s network runs accordingly. With businesses becoming increasingly dependent on technological advances each year, the need for well-trained IT professionals also continues to increase. Your degree in network administration will help you find and succeed in a database administration career.

Our comprehensive blended online and on campus network administration degree program offers you the flexibility and convenience of online learning with the hand-on experience only found in a classroom setting.

Network administration professionals have additional certifications available to them to showcase their skills and knowledge specific to their field. As a student completing our network administration specialization, Rasmussen College prepares you for these external certification exams specific to your field. Check out the external certifications available to our network administration students.

Network Administration Courses

Our blended online and classroom Network Administration specialization helps prepare you to meet the diverse network needs of businesses around the country. With a network administration degree, you will learn to install, manage and monitor computer networks using popular network operating systems. You will also build, configure, and troubleshoot computer hardware.

Some key courses include:

Project Planning and Documentation
You will identify goals, design timelines, and track progress on a project.

Networking Fundamentals
You will design a Basic Network, connect a computer to a LAN, and setup security for a LAN.

Microsoft Windows Server
You will learn how to implement account policies, troubleshoot login problems, and manage disk resources to support a Windows Server.

View courses – Information Systems Management Associate's degree with a Network Administration specialization

Network Administration Career Outlook

Mass computer use has created a high demand for specialists to provide support for complex computer systems and networks. Employment of computer and network administration support specialists is expected to increase faster than the average for all occupations.

Here's a snapshot of some possible careers:

Network and computer systems administrators: growth + 27 %, salary $51,690‡
Network Systems and Data Communications Analyst: growth +53%, salary $54,330‡
Computer Specialists, all other: growth +15 %, salary $56,940‡
Computer Support Specialists: growth +13 %, salary $33,680‡
Computer and Information Systems Manager: growth +16%, salary $88,240‡

The Rasmussen College career placement staff starts helping you even before you graduate – with your resume, cover letter, interviewing techniques and how to search for a great career. And it doesn't end there – these services are available throughout your career.