Information Science at Mercer University

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

Mercer is located in Macon, Georgia and approximately 9,006 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,298 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mercer University in 2021, 8 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.

Mercer Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IS

Mercer Information Science Rankings

The IS major at Mercer 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.

IS Student Demographics at Mercer

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

Mercer Information Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 75% of IS bachelor's degrees went to men and 25% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% 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 Mercer University with a bachelor's in IS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Computer Software & Applications
• Information Technology
• Computer Programming
• Computer Information Systems
• 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 GA, the home state for Mercer 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 Korea2006 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.