Information Science at University of South Carolina - Columbia

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

UofSC is located in Columbia, South Carolina and approximately 35,470 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 23 IS majors received their bachelor's degree from UofSC.

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.

UofSC Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IS

UofSC Information Science Rankings

The IS major at UofSC 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.

IS Student Demographics at UofSC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IS majors at University of South Carolina - Columbia.

UofSC Information Science Bachelor’s Program

The IS program at UofSC awarded 23 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 48% of these degrees went to men with the other 52% going to women. The typical IS bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at UofSC since its program graduates 18% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 18% 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 South Carolina - Columbia with a bachelor's in IS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Information Technology
• Computer Science
• Computer Information Systems

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 SC, the home state for University of South Carolina - Columbia.

Occupation	Jobs in SC	Average Salary in SC
Computer and Information Systems Managers	3,070	$120,720
Systems Software Developers	2,280	$80,250
Computer Workers	1,510	$92,100
Computer Science Professors	580	$76,950
Computer and Information Research Scientists	370	$96,870

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 Idibri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.