General Information Science at Suffolk University

Every general information science school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the information science program at Suffolk University stacks up to those at other schools.

Suffolk is located in Boston, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 6,830.

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.

Suffolk General Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science

Suffolk General Information Science Rankings

The information science major at Suffolk 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 Suffolk

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

Suffolk General Information Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 62% of information science bachelor's degrees went to men and 38% 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 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 information science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	9
International Students	19
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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 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.