Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

What traits are you looking for in a computer science school? To help you decide if University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's computer science program.

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and approximately 52,679 students attend the school each year.

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

UIUC Computer Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science

UIUC Computer Science Rankings

The computer science major at UIUC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computer 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.

There were 52 students who received their doctoral degrees in computer science, making the school the #2 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Computer Science Student Demographics at UIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computer science majors at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

UIUC Computer Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 74% of computer science bachelor's degrees went to men and 26% went to women. The typical computer science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at UIUC since its program graduates 2% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 21% more racial-ethnic minorities in its computer science 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 Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's in computer science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	149
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	52
International Students	78
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

UIUC Computer Science Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 79% of computer science master's degrees went to men and 21% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's in computer science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	200
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	143
International Students	337
Other Races/Ethnicities	132

Careers That Computer Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in computer 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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Software Applications Developers	30,500	$96,610
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,770	$143,900
Systems Software Developers	17,130	$108,570
Computer Programmers	11,350	$91,860

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 Beyond My ken under License

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