Information Science at Grambling State University

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

GSU is located in Grambling, Louisiana and has a total student population of 5,438. Of the 568 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Grambling State University in 2021, 24 of them were information science majors.

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.

GSU Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IS

GSU Information Science Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IS programs across the country. The following shows how GSU 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 GSU 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
Most Focused Information Science Schools	56
Best Value Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	113
	188

How Much Do IS Graduates from GSU Make?

The median salary of IS students who receive their bachelor's degree at GSU is $42,093. This is less than $52,802, which is the national average of all IS majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

IS Student Demographics at GSU

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

GSU Information Science Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 24 IS majors earned their bachelor's degree from GSU. Of these graduates, 25% were men and 75% were women. The typical IS bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at GSU since its program graduates 41% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 28% more racial-ethnic minorities in its IS bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	15
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	0
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

GSU 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 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 LA, the home state for Grambling State University.

Occupation	Jobs in LA	Average Salary in LA
Computer Workers	4,050	$66,600
Computer and Information Systems Managers	1,870	$112,860
Systems Software Developers	1,300	$76,200
Computer Science Professors	160	$95,480
Computer and Information Research Scientists	80	$89,810

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 Billy Hathorn under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.