Computer Information Systems at Wellesley College

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

Wellesley is located in Wellesley, Massachusetts and approximately 2,280 students attend the school each year. Of the 739 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College in 2021, 44 of them were computer information systems majors.

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

Wellesley Computer Information Systems Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in CIS

Wellesley Computer Information Systems Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The CIS major at Wellesley is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computer Information Systems. 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
	4
Best Computer Information Systems Schools	8
	9
Most Focused Computer Information Systems Schools	143

Earnings of Wellesley CIS Graduates

The median salary of CIS students who receive their bachelor's degree at Wellesley is $110,380. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 107% higher than the national average of $53,242 for all CIS bachelor's degree recipients.

CIS Student Demographics at Wellesley

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the CIS majors at Wellesley College.

Wellesley Computer Information Systems Bachelor’s Program

Of the 44 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in CIS from Wellesley in 2021, 0% were men and 100% were women. The typical CIS bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Wellesley since its program graduates 75% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 26% more racial-ethnic minorities in its CIS bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's in CIS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	18
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	10
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Computer Software & Applications

Careers That CIS Grads May Go Into

A degree in CIS can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Wellesley College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Software Applications Developers	29,110	$109,130
Systems Software Developers	25,540	$117,760
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,820	$156,620
Computer Systems Analysts	14,790	$94,510
Computer Workers	11,190	$92,110

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 Jared and Corin under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.