Computer Information Systems at Mercer University

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

Mercer is located in Macon, Georgia and approximately 9,006 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 13 CIS majors received their bachelor's degree from Mercer.

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.

Mercer Computer Information Systems Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in CIS

Online Classes Are Available at Mercer

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? Mercer offers distance education options for CIS at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Mercer Computer Information Systems Rankings

The CIS major at Mercer 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.

CIS Student Demographics at Mercer

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

Mercer Computer Information Systems Bachelor’s Program

Of the 13 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in CIS from Mercer in 2021, 46% were men and 54% were women. The typical CIS bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Mercer since its program graduates 29% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 49% 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 Mercer University with a bachelor's in CIS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Computer Software & Applications
• Information Technology
• Computer Programming
• Information Science
• 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 Mercer 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 Korea2006 under License

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