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General Information Science at Averett University

General Information Science at Averett University

If you plan to study general information science, take a look at what Averett University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

AU is located in Danville, Virginia and has a total student population of 887.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Information Science section at the bottom of this page.

AU General Information Science Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science

Online Classes Are Available at AU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? AU offers distance education options for information science at the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

AU General Information Science Rankings

The information science major at AU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Information Science. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Information Science Student Demographics at AU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the information science majors at Averett University.

AU General Information Science Bachelor’s Program

40% Women
40% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 60% of information science bachelor's degrees went to men and 40% went to women. The typical information science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% women. So female students are more repesented at AU since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

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About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in information science at AU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its information science bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Averett University with a bachelor's in information science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 3
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

Careers That Information Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in information science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for Averett University.

Occupation Jobs in VA Average Salary in VA
Systems Software Developers 27,800 $119,860
Computer Workers 14,580 $105,270
Computer and Information Systems Managers 13,450 $173,290
Computer and Information Research Scientists 2,740 $129,840
Computer Science Professors 1,520 $90,880

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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