Computer Science at Colby College

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

Colby is located in Waterville, Maine and approximately 2,155 students attend the school each year.

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.

Colby Computer Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Colby Computer Science Rankings

The computer science major at Colby 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 Colby

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

Colby Computer Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 65% of computer science bachelor's degrees went to men and 35% 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 Colby since its program graduates 11% more women than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	18
International Students	14
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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 ME, the home state for Colby College.

Occupation	Jobs in ME	Average Salary in ME
Software Applications Developers	2,270	$90,190
Computer and Information Systems Managers	1,350	$124,130
Computer Workers	890	$79,790
Computer Programmers	780	$84,830
Computer Network Support Specialists	720	$63,800

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 Nickline4 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.