General Information Science at Columbia University in the City of New York

If you are interested in studying general information science, you may want to check out the program at Columbia University in the City of New York. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Columbia is located in New York, New York and approximately 30,135 students attend the school each year. Of the 363 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in the City of New York in 2021, 11 of them were general information science majors.

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

Columbia General Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science

Columbia General Information Science Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the information science progam at Columbia compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 information science major at Columbia is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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
	4
Best General Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	13
	15
Best General Information Science Schools	32
Most Popular General Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	106
Best Value General Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	132
Most Popular General Information Science Schools	189
Most Focused General Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	192
Best Value General Information Science Schools	215
Most Focused General Information Science Schools	333

Information Science Student Demographics at Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the information science majors at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Columbia General Information Science Bachelor’s Program

The information science program at Columbia awarded 11 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 55% of these degrees went to men with the other 45% going to women. The typical information science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 34% women. So female students are more repesented at Columbia since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 25% more racial-ethnic minorities in its information science bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a bachelor's in information science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	3
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Careers That Information Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in information science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Columbia University in the City of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Computer and Information Systems Managers	27,070	$190,310
Systems Software Developers	19,690	$115,120
Computer Science Professors	3,030	$105,860
Computer and Information Research Scientists	1,430	$131,220

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 Nandaro under License

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