Computer Information Systems at Richmond Community College

If you are interested in studying computer information systems, you may want to check out the program at Richmond Community College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Richmond Community College is located in Hamlet, North Carolina and approximately 2,226 students attend the school each year.

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

Richmond Community College Computer Information Systems Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in CIS (Less Than 1 Year)
• Associate’s Degree in CIS

Online Classes Are Available at Richmond Community College

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Richmond Community College offers distance education options for CIS at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree

Richmond Community College Computer Information Systems Rankings

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

CIS Student Demographics at Richmond Community College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the CIS majors at Richmond Community College.

Richmond Community College Computer Information Systems Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of CIS associate's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in CIS only graduates about 25% women each year. The program at Richmond Community College may seem more female-friendly since it graduates 25% more women than average.

Richmond Community College does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in CIS graduates 31% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Richmond Community College with a associate's in CIS.

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

Related Majors

Careers That CIS Grads May Go Into

A degree in CIS 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 Richmond Community College.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Software Applications Developers	30,580	$103,280
Computer Systems Analysts	26,110	$93,480
Computer and Information Systems Managers	12,740	$142,330
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	11,690	$84,870
Systems Software Developers	7,070	$105,760

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.