Information Science at University of Illinois at Chicago

If you plan to study information science, take a look at what University of Illinois at Chicago has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UIC is located in Chicago, Illinois and approximately 33,518 students attend the school each year. Of the 5,247 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2021, 156 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.

UIC Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IS

UIC Information Science Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IS programs across the country. The following shows how UIC performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The IS major at UIC 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Information Science Schools	126

How Much Do IS Graduates from UIC Make?

The median salary of IS students who receive their bachelor's degree at UIC is $51,817. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $52,802 for all IS students.

IS Student Demographics at UIC

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

UIC Information Science Bachelor’s Program

The IS program at UIC awarded 156 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 69% of these degrees went to men with the other 31% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 23% more racial-ethnic minorities in its IS bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	55
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	31
White	34
International Students	18
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

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

Related Majors

• Computer Systems Analysis
• 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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Chicago.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,770	$143,900
Systems Software Developers	17,130	$108,570
Computer Science Professors	1,430	$83,270
Computer and Information Research Scientists	500	$113,350

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 Hied5 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.