Information Science at James Madison University

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

JMU is located in Harrisonburg, Virginia and approximately 21,594 students attend the school each year. Of the 5,002 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from James Madison University in 2021, 168 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.

JMU Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IS

JMU Information Science Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the IS progam at JMU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 JMU 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
	7

How Much Do IS Graduates from JMU Make?

The median salary of IS students who receive their bachelor's degree at JMU is $70,020. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 33% higher than the national average of $52,802 for all IS bachelor's degree recipients.

IS Student Demographics at JMU

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

JMU Information Science Bachelor’s Program

Of the 168 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Information Science from JMU in 2020-2021, 82% were men and 18% were women.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in IS at JMU 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 James Madison University with a bachelor's in IS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	18
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	112
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

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

Related Majors

• Other Computer & Information Sciences
• Computer Information Systems

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 VA, the home state for James Madison University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Systems Software Developers	27,800	$119,860
Computer Workers	14,580	$105,270
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,450	$173,290
Computer and Information Research Scientists	2,740	$129,840
Computer Science Professors	1,520	$90,880

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 Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, North Carolina under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.