General Computer & Information Sciences at Cornell University

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

Cornell is located in Ithaca, New York and approximately 23,620 students attend the school each year.

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

Cornell General Computer & Information Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Sciences

Cornell General Computer & Information Sciences Rankings

The computer and information sciences major at Cornell is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Computer & Information Sciences. 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 and Information Sciences Student Demographics at Cornell

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computer and information sciences majors at Cornell University.

Cornell General Computer & Information Sciences Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 45% of computer and information sciences bachelor's degrees went to men and 55% went to women. The typical computer and information sciences bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Cornell since its program graduates 29% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% more racial-ethnic minorities in its computer and information sciences bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	6
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Information Technology

Careers That Computer and Information Sciences Grads May Go Into

A degree in computer and information sciences 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 Cornell University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Computer Systems Analysts	44,030	$106,320
Computer and Information Systems Managers	27,070	$190,310
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	25,940	$94,940
Computer Network Architects	8,660	$113,300
Database Administrators	7,100	$99,000

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 Notyourbroom under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.