General Computer & Information Sciences at Rice University

If you are interested in studying general computer & information sciences, you may want to check out the program at Rice University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Rice is located in Houston, Texas and has a total student population of 7,643.

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

Rice General Computer & Information Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Sciences
• Master’s Degree in Computer and Information Sciences

Rice General Computer & Information Sciences Rankings

The computer and information sciences major at Rice is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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.

There were 16 students who received their doctoral degrees in computer and information sciences, making the school the #17 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Computer and Information Sciences Student Demographics at Rice

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computer and information sciences majors at Rice University.

Rice General Computer & Information Sciences Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of computer and information sciences bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. The typical computer and information sciences bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Rice since its program graduates 8% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% more racial-ethnic minorities in its computer and information sciences bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	53
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	52
International Students	35
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

Rice General Computer & Information Sciences Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 72% of computer and information sciences master's degrees went to men and 28% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	14
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	14
International Students	247
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

Careers That Computer and Information Sciences Grads May Go Into

A degree in computer and 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 TX, the home state for Rice University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Computer Systems Analysts	51,710	$97,900
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	35,100	$89,500
Computer Workers	25,620	$90,290
Computer and Information Systems Managers	22,350	$154,650
Computer Network Architects	12,560	$119,340

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 Anatol Stefanowitsch under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.