Computer Science at Duke University

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

Duke is located in Durham, North Carolina and approximately 16,172 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.

Duke Computer Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Duke Computer Science Rankings

The computer science major at Duke 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.

There were 8 students who received their doctoral degrees in computer science, making the school the #49 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Computer Science Student Demographics at Duke

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

Duke 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 Duke since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% more racial-ethnic minorities in its computer science bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	128
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	43
White	114
International Students	74
Other Races/Ethnicities	35

Duke Computer Science Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 74% of computer science master's degrees went to men and 26% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	5
International Students	43
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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 NC, the home state for Duke University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Software Applications Developers	30,580	$103,280
Computer and Information Systems Managers	12,740	$142,330
Systems Software Developers	7,070	$105,760
Computer Programmers	6,210	$94,570
Computer Workers	5,940	$88,650

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 Bjoertvedt under License

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