Computer Information Systems at Brown University

What traits are you looking for in a CIS school? To help you decide if Brown University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's CIS program.

Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and approximately 10,257 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,097 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 2019, 27 of them were computer information systems majors.

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

Brown Computer Information Systems Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in CIS

Brown Computer Information Systems Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the CIS progam at Brown compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The CIS major at Brown is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computer Information Systems. 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Computer Information Systems Doctor’s Degree Schools	83
Most Popular Computer Information Systems Master’s Degree Schools	287

In 2019, 0 student received their master’s degree in CIS from Brown. This is the #287 most popular school for CIS master’s degree candidates in the country.

CIS Student Demographics at Brown

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the CIS majors at Brown University.

Brown Computer Information Systems Bachelor’s Program

Of the 27 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in CIS from Brown in 2019, 74% were men and 26% were women. The typical CIS bachelor's degree program is made up of only 23% women. So female students are more repesented at Brown since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	8
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Brown also has a doctoral program available in CIS. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Information Technology
• Computer Science

Careers That CIS Grads May Go Into

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

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Software Applications Developers	1,840	$96,850
Computer Systems Analysts	1,810	$99,470
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	1,800	$90,600
Computer Workers	1,410	$81,290
Computer and Information Systems Managers	1,270	$146,550

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Ad Meskens under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.