General Information Science at Columbia University in the City of New York

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

Columbia is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 30,135.

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.

Columbia General Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science

Columbia General Information Science Rankings

The information science major at Columbia 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 Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the information science majors at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Columbia General Information Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 38% of information science bachelor's degrees went to men and 62% 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 Columbia since its program graduates 26% more women than average.

About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in information science at Columbia 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 Columbia University in the City of New York with a bachelor's in information science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	7
International Students	2
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 NY, the home state for Columbia University in the City of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Computer and Information Systems Managers	27,070	$190,310
Systems Software Developers	19,690	$115,120
Computer Science Professors	3,030	$105,860
Computer and Information Research Scientists	1,430	$131,220

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 Nandaro under License

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