Network Administration · Maryland
Network Administration colleges in Maryland
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Network Administration trains you to keep an organization's networks and servers running securely, connecting users to systems and data day to day.
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What you'll study in a Network Administration program
- Local-area and wide-area network design and configuration
- Server operating system administration across Windows and Linux
- Routing, switching, and TCP/IP protocol fundamentals
- Information systems and network security principles
- Storage capacity, bandwidth, and traffic-load monitoring
- Data backup, recovery, and disaster-readiness procedures
- User accounts, permissions, and resource allocation
- Virtualization and cloud infrastructure management
- Hands-on networking labs with troubleshooting and configuration
Where a Network Administration degree can lead
- Network Administrator
- Systems Administrator
- Network Engineer
- Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
- IT Operations Analyst
- Network Security Administrator
Typical pay: Early-career wages vary by employer, region, and experience (BLS, 2024 network and computer systems administrators median $96,800).
Network Administration is the study of how to set up, run, and protect the systems that connect computers to each other and to the wider internet. Students learn how local and wide-area networks are designed, how servers are configured, and how traffic moves between machines. You spend time on hardware and operating systems, monitoring how much storage and bandwidth a network is using, scheduling backups, allocating accounts and resources to users, and following secure procedures to bring systems online and take them down. The major leans practical and operations-focused: rather than writing the applications themselves, like a software engineering program, or studying the underlying theory of computation, like computer science, this field is about making real infrastructure dependable, reachable, and safe day to day.
Many programs are heavily lab-based, giving students access to physical or virtual environments where they wire, configure, and break-and-fix networks and servers in controlled conditions. Coursework often pairs with industry certification preparation, and some programs include a capstone or internship where students manage a working environment end to end. There is no state license to administer networks, though employers frequently expect vendor or security certifications, and you should verify any certification or accreditation expectations for a given program. Graduates work across nearly every sector that relies on connected systems, including corporate IT departments, hospitals and schools, government agencies, internet and cloud service providers, and managed-service firms that run infrastructure on behalf of other businesses.
In federal data for the closely related occupation of network and computer systems administrators, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 2024 median wage of $96,800 and projects employment to decline about 4.2% from 2024 to 2034; a bachelor's degree is the typical entry-level education for that occupation. National figures are occupation-wide medians across all experience levels, not starting wages or graduate outcomes.
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