Computer Science at Carleton College

Every computer science school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the computer science program at Carleton College stacks up to those at other schools.

Carleton is located in Northfield, Minnesota and has a total student population of 1,940.

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

Carleton Computer Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Carleton Computer Science Rankings

The computer science major at Carleton is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computer 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.

Computer Science Student Demographics at Carleton

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computer science majors at Carleton College.

Carleton Computer Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 71% of computer science bachelor's degrees went to men and 29% went to women. The typical computer science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at Carleton since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	31
International Students	26
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Careers That Computer Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in computer 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 MN, the home state for Carleton College.

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
Software Applications Developers	19,970	$96,750
Computer and Information Systems Managers	9,510	$143,300
Systems Software Developers	6,460	$110,460
Computer Workers	6,200	$81,650
Computer Programmers	4,520	$86,710

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 Dogs1337 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.