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General Information Science at Furman University

General Information Science at Furman University

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

Furman is located in Greenville, South Carolina and approximately 2,567 students attend the school each year.

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.

Furman General Information Science Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science

Furman General Information Science Rankings

The information science major at Furman 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 Furman

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

Furman General Information Science Bachelor’s Program

44% Women
11% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 56% of information science bachelor's degrees went to men and 44% 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 Furman since its program graduates 9% more women than average.

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About 89% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in information science at Furman 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 Furman University with a bachelor's in information science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 8
International Students 0
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 SC, the home state for Furman University.

Occupation Jobs in SC Average Salary in SC
Computer and Information Systems Managers 3,070 $120,720
Systems Software Developers 2,280 $80,250
Computer Workers 1,510 $92,100
Computer Science Professors 580 $76,950
Computer and Information Research Scientists 370 $96,870

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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