Computer Science at Dickinson College

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

Dickinson is located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 1,932.

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.

Dickinson Computer Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Dickinson Computer Science Rankings

The computer science major at Dickinson 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 Dickinson

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

Dickinson Computer Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 64% of computer science bachelor's degrees went to men and 36% 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 Dickinson since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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 PA, the home state for Dickinson College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Software Applications Developers	28,260	$96,370
Computer Workers	19,010	$87,040
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,070	$146,860
Computer Programmers	8,990	$85,800
Systems Software Developers	8,810	$103,520

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 JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.