General Computer & Information Sciences at University of Maryland Global Campus

If you are interested in studying general computer & information sciences, you may want to check out the program at University of Maryland Global Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland and approximately 58,526 students attend the school each year.

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

UMGC General Computer & Information Sciences Degrees Available

• Undergrad Certificate in Computer and Information Sciences (1 - 4 Years)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Sciences

Online Classes Are Available at UMGC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

UMGC does offer online education options in computer and information sciences for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UMGC General Computer & Information Sciences Rankings

The computer and information sciences major at UMGC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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 and Information Sciences Student Demographics at UMGC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computer and information sciences majors at University of Maryland Global Campus.

UMGC General Computer & Information Sciences Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 73% of computer and information sciences bachelor's degrees went to men and 27% went to women. The typical computer and information sciences bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at UMGC since its program graduates 1% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% more racial-ethnic minorities in its computer and information sciences bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Maryland Global Campus with a bachelor's in computer and information sciences.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	47
Black or African American	96
Hispanic or Latino	54
White	240
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	100

Related Majors

Careers That Computer and Information Sciences Grads May Go Into

A degree in computer and 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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland Global Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Computer Systems Analysts	18,340	$97,720
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	16,220	$108,190
Computer Workers	13,720	$113,330
Computer and Information Systems Managers	10,590	$154,870
Computer Network Architects	5,340	$121,720

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 M Chambers under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.