General Information Science at Mercy College

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

Mercy is located in Dobbs Ferry, New York and approximately 9,547 students attend the school each year.

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

Mercy General Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science

Mercy General Information Science Rankings

The information science major at Mercy is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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.

Information Science Student Demographics at Mercy

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the information science majors at Mercy College.

Mercy General Information Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 57% of information science bachelor's degrees went to men and 43% went to women. The typical information science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% women. So female students are more repesented at Mercy since its program graduates 8% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 49% more racial-ethnic minorities in its information science bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Mercy College with a bachelor's in information science.

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

Careers That Information Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in information science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Mercy College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Computer and Information Systems Managers	27,070	$190,310
Systems Software Developers	19,690	$115,120
Computer Science Professors	3,030	$105,860
Computer and Information Research Scientists	1,430	$131,220

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 Sardaka under License

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