Information Science at Suffolk University

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

Suffolk is located in Boston, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 6,830. Of the 1,159 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Suffolk University in 2021, 52 of them were information science majors.

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

Suffolk Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IS

Suffolk Information Science Rankings

The IS major at Suffolk is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for 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.

IS Student Demographics at Suffolk

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IS majors at Suffolk University.

Suffolk Information Science Bachelor’s Program

Of the 52 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Information Science from Suffolk in 2020-2021, 63% were men and 37% were women. The typical IS bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Suffolk since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	15
International Students	26
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Suffolk also has a doctoral program available in IS. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Computer Science

Careers That IS Grads May Go Into

A degree in IS can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Suffolk University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Systems Software Developers	25,540	$117,760
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,820	$156,620
Computer Workers	11,190	$92,110
Computer Science Professors	1,010	$106,670
Computer and Information Research Scientists	720	$116,920

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 Oxymoron under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.