Information Science at East Carolina University

If you plan to study information science, take a look at what East Carolina University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and approximately 28,798 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students received a bachelor's degree in IS from ECU.

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

ECU Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IS

ECU Information Science Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IS programs across the country. The following shows how ECU performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The IS major at ECU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Information Science Graduate Certificate Schools	17
Best Information Science Graduate Certificate Schools	26
Best Value Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	80
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IS Student Demographics at ECU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IS majors at East Carolina University.

ECU Information Science Bachelor’s Program

Of the 6 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Information Science from ECU in 2020-2021, 67% were men and 33% were women.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in IS at ECU 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 East Carolina University with a bachelor's in IS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

ECU also has a doctoral program available in IS. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Information Technology
• Computer Systems Networking
• Computer Information Systems
• Computer Software & Applications
• Computer Science

Careers That IS Grads May Go Into

A degree in IS 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 East Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Computer and Information Systems Managers	12,740	$142,330
Systems Software Developers	7,070	$105,760
Computer Workers	5,940	$88,650
Computer Science Professors	1,640	$72,320
Computer and Information Research Scientists	140	$108,460

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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.