Computer & Information Sciences at Swarthmore College

If you plan to study computer & information sciences, take a look at what Swarthmore College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Swarthmore is located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and approximately 1,437 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.

Swarthmore Computer & Information Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer & Information Sciences

Swarthmore Computer & Information Sciences Rankings

The computer & information sciences major at Swarthmore 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 Swarthmore

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computer & information sciences majors at Swarthmore College.

Swarthmore Computer & Information Sciences Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 60% of computer & information sciences bachelor's degrees went to men and 40% 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 Swarthmore since its program graduates 13% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% 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 Swarthmore College with a bachelor's in computer & information sciences.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	20
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

Concentrations Within Computer & Information Sciences

If you plan to be a computer & information sciences major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Swarthmore College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Computer Information Systems	59

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 PA, the home state for Swarthmore College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Software Applications Developers	28,260	$96,370
Computer User Support Specialists	22,790	$52,370
Computer Systems Analysts	21,910	$95,990
Computer Workers	19,010	$87,040
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,070	$146,860

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 Nelson Pavlosky under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.