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General Information Science at Christopher Newport University

General Information Science at Christopher Newport University

If you are interested in studying general information science, you may want to check out the program at Christopher Newport University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CNU is located in Newport News, Virginia and has a total student population of 4,868.

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.

CNU General Information Science Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science

CNU General Information Science Rankings

The information science major at CNU 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 CNU

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

CNU General Information Science Bachelor’s Program

31% Women
33% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 69% of information science bachelor's degrees went to men and 31% went to women.

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About 64% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in information science at CNU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 5
Black or African American 5
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 25
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

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 Christopher Newport 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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