General Computer & Information Sciences at George Washington University

If you are interested in studying general computer and information sciences, you may want to check out the program at George Washington University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

GWU is located in Washington, District of Columbia and approximately 27,017 students attend the school each year. Of the 175 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University in 2021, 37 of them were general computer and information sciences majors.

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

GWU General Computer & Information Sciences Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Sciences

GWU General Computer & Information Sciences Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks computer and information sciences programs across the country. The following shows how GWU 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 computer and information sciences major at GWU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Computer & Information Sciences. 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
	91
Best General Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	101
	137
Most Popular General Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	152
Best Value General Computer Science Schools	351
Most Focused General Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools	479
Most Focused General Computer Science Schools	757

Computer and Information Sciences Student Demographics at GWU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computer and information sciences majors at George Washington University.

GWU General Computer & Information Sciences Bachelor’s Program

The computer and information sciences program at GWU awarded 37 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 65% of these degrees went to men with the other 35% going to women. The typical computer and information sciences bachelor's degree program is made up of only 23% women. So female students are more repesented at GWU since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% more racial-ethnic minorities in its computer and information sciences bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from George Washington University with a bachelor's in computer and information sciences.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	11
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

GWU also has a doctoral program available in computer and information sciences. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Artificial Intelligence
• Information Technology

Careers That Computer and Information Sciences Grads May Go Into

A degree in computer and information sciences can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for DC, the home state for George Washington University.

Occupation	Jobs in DC	Average Salary in DC
Computer Workers	18,040	$117,540
Computer and Information Systems Managers	4,020	$168,500
Computer Systems Analysts	3,630	$106,790
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	1,960	$99,920
Computer Network Architects	1,010	$123,200

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 Michiel1972 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.