General Information Science at University of Mount Olive

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

UMO is located in Mount Olive, North Carolina and approximately 2,536 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.

UMO General Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science

Online Classes Are Available at UMO

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.

UMO does offer online education options in information science for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UMO General Information Science Rankings

The information science major at UMO 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 UMO

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the information science majors at University of Mount Olive.

UMO General Information Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 58% of information science bachelor's degrees went to men and 42% 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 UMO since its program graduates 6% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 38% 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 University of Mount Olive with a bachelor's in information science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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 NC, the home state for University of Mount Olive.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Computer and Information Systems Managers	12,740	$142,330
Systems Software Developers	7,070	$105,760
Computer Workers	5,940	$88,650
Computer Science Professors	1,640	$72,320
Computer and Information Research Scientists	140	$108,460

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 Mount Olive College under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.