General Information Science at Georgia Southern University

Every general information science school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the information science program at Georgia Southern University stacks up to those at other schools.

GaSou is located in Statesboro, Georgia and has a total student population of 26,949.

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.

GaSou General Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science

Online Classes Are Available at GaSou

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? GaSou offers distance education options for information science at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

GaSou General Information Science Rankings

The information science major at GaSou 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 GaSou

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

GaSou General Information Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 80% of information science bachelor's degrees went to men and 20% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% more racial-ethnic minorities in its information science bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	35
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	40
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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 GA, the home state for Georgia Southern University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Computer Workers	21,500	$90,140
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,990	$143,930
Systems Software Developers	12,910	$105,100
Computer and Information Research Scientists	690	$100,140
Computer Science Professors	470	$85,080

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 Richardelainechambers at English Wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.