Information Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology

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

WIT is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 4,389 students attend the school each year. Of the 877 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Wentworth Institute of Technology in 2021, 25 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.

WIT Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IS

WIT Information Science Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IS programs across the country. The following shows how WIT 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 WIT 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
	47
Most Popular Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	62
Best Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	88

Earnings of WIT IS Graduates

The median salary of IS students who receive their bachelor's degree at WIT is $59,615. This is 13% higher than $52,802, which is the national average for all IS bachelor's degree recipients.

IS Student Demographics at WIT

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IS majors at Wentworth Institute of Technology.

WIT Information Science Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 88% of IS bachelor's degrees went to men and 12% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 1% 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 Wentworth Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in IS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

WIT 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 Networking
• 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 MA, the home state for Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Systems Software Developers	25,540	$117,760
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,820	$156,620
Computer Workers	11,190	$92,110
Computer Science Professors	1,010	$106,670
Computer and Information Research Scientists	720	$116,920

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.