Computer Information Systems at Georgia Southwestern State University

What traits are you looking for in a CIS school? To help you decide if Georgia Southwestern State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's CIS program.

GSW is located in Americus, Georgia and has a total student population of 3,162. Of the 388 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Georgia Southwestern State University in 2021, 6 of them were computer information systems majors.

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

GSW Computer Information Systems Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in CIS

GSW Computer Information Systems Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The CIS major at GSW is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computer Information Systems. 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 Computer Information Systems Bachelor’s Degree Schools	337
Best Computer Information Systems Bachelor’s Degree Schools	425
Best Computer Information Systems Schools	556

Earnings of GSW CIS Graduates

The median salary of CIS students who receive their bachelor's degree at GSW is $31,267. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $53,242 for all CIS students.

CIS Student Demographics at GSW

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the CIS majors at Georgia Southwestern State University.

GSW Computer Information Systems Bachelor’s Program

The CIS program at GSW awarded 6 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 67% of these degrees went to men with the other 33% going to women. The typical CIS bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at GSW since its program graduates 8% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% more racial-ethnic minorities in its CIS bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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

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

Related Majors

• Computer Science

Careers That CIS Grads May Go Into

A degree in CIS 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 Southwestern State University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Software Applications Developers	30,440	$105,240
Computer Workers	21,500	$90,140
Computer Systems Analysts	19,160	$91,060
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,990	$143,930
Systems Software Developers	12,910	$105,100

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 Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.