Information Science at West Virginia Wesleyan College

If you are interested in studying information science, you may want to check out the program at West Virginia Wesleyan College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

West Virginia Wesleyan is located in Buckhannon, West Virginia and has a total student population of 1,066. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 3 students received a bachelor's degree in IS from West Virginia Wesleyan.

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.

West Virginia Wesleyan Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IS

West Virginia Wesleyan Information Science Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the IS progam at West Virginia Wesleyan compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 IS major at West Virginia Wesleyan 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
Most Popular Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	156
Most Popular Information Science Schools	288

IS Student Demographics at West Virginia Wesleyan

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IS majors at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

West Virginia Wesleyan Information Science Bachelor’s Program

Of the 3 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in IS from West Virginia Wesleyan in 2021, 33% were men and 67% were women. The typical IS bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at West Virginia Wesleyan since its program graduates 33% more women than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in IS at West Virginia Wesleyan are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• 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 WV, the home state for West Virginia Wesleyan College.

Occupation	Jobs in WV	Average Salary in WV
Computer Workers	2,380	$83,660
Computer and Information Systems Managers	810	$119,430
Systems Software Developers	420	$100,170
Computer Science Professors	360	$61,990
Computer and Information Research Scientists	50	$77,580

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 Fryeguy91 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.