Computer & Information Sciences at Pacific Lutheran University

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

PLU is located in Tacoma, Washington and approximately 2,907 students attend the school each year.

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

PLU Computer & Information Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer & Information Sciences

PLU Computer & Information Sciences Rankings

The computer & information sciences major at PLU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computer & Information Sciences. 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.

Computer & Information Sciences Student Demographics at PLU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computer & information sciences majors at Pacific Lutheran University.

PLU Computer & Information Sciences Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 72% of computer & information sciences bachelor's degrees went to men and 28% went to women. The typical computer & information sciences bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% women. So female students are more repesented at PLU since its program graduates 1% more women than average.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in computer & information sciences at PLU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its computer & information sciences bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a bachelor's in computer & information sciences.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Concentrations Within Computer & Information Sciences

Computer & Information Sciences majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Pacific Lutheran University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Computer Information Systems	22

Related Majors

Careers That Computer & Information Sciences Grads May Go Into

A degree in computer & information sciences can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for WA, the home state for Pacific Lutheran University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Software Applications Developers	53,860	$131,790
Computer User Support Specialists	18,630	$62,180
Computer Systems Analysts	17,970	$96,860
Systems Software Developers	16,130	$121,250
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,690	$159,290

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 Joe Mabel under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.