Management Information Systems at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

If you are interested in studying management information systems, you may want to check out the program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

WPI is located in Worcester, Massachusetts and approximately 6,920 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in MIS from WPI.

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

WPI Management Information Systems Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in MIS

WPI Management Information Systems Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks MIS programs across the country. The following shows how WPI 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 MIS major at WPI is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Management 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
	15
Most Focused Management Information Systems Graduate Certificate Schools	41
Most Popular Management Information Systems Schools	284

MIS Student Demographics at WPI

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the MIS majors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

WPI Management Information Systems Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 60% of MIS bachelor's degrees went to men and 40% went to women. The typical MIS bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% women. So female students are more repesented at WPI since its program graduates 8% more women than average.

About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in MIS at WPI are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% more racial-ethnic minorities in its MIS bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's in MIS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Marketing
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Other Business, Management & Marketing
• Business Administration & Management
• General Business/Commerce

Careers That MIS Grads May Go Into

A degree in MIS 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 Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,820	$156,620
Computer Programmers	4,420	$95,380

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 Runningonbrains under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.