Computerworld magazine has once again named Temple one of the “100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology.” It is the seventh consecutive year that the university has been named to the list.

The annual list, which began in 1994, is compiled based on a comprehensive organizational questionnaire regarding offerings in categories such as benefits, diversity, career development, training and retention. In addition, Computerworld conducts extensive surveys of each organization’s IT workers, and their responses factor heavily in determining the rankings.

Temple ranked 67th on the 2011 list and is one of only five universities to be ranked along with the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Miami, George Washington University and Indiana University at Bloomington. The university also ranked 10th out of 15 companies and organizations in the Mid-Atlantic region.

“I think that being ranked once again by Computerworld magazine says that Temple offers a good, fun and challenging working environment for its IT staff,” said Timothy O’Rourke, vice president of computer and financial services and chief information officer. “We have a very talented group of people working in IT that have been around here a long time and love working at Temple.”

In its ranking of Temple, Computerworld noted the tuition remission benefits available to employees, their spouses and children; professional and personal development training offered through the university's IT and human resources departments; as well as the university’s ongoing commitment to technology.

O’Rourke pointed out that Temple has a “very robust and technically advanced data network” and that the university’s technology is cutting edge.

“Our academic computing is really second to none, the TECH Center is a world-class facility—probably the best in the country and the implementation of Banner has leapfrogged Temple to the cutting edge in administrative computing,” he said.

See the entire 2011 list of Computerworld’s “100 Best Places to Work in IT” .