Information Science at Johns Hopkins University

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

Johns Hopkins is located in Baltimore, Maryland and has a total student population of 28,890. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 60 students received their master's degree in IS.

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.

Johns Hopkins Information Science Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in IS

Online Classes Are Available at Johns Hopkins

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, Johns Hopkins does offer online courses in IS for the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Johns Hopkins Information Science Rankings

IS Student Demographics at Johns Hopkins

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IS majors at Johns Hopkins University.

Johns Hopkins Information Science Master’s Program

The IS program at Johns Hopkins awarded 60 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 70% of these degrees went to men with the other 30% going to women.

Of the students who received a IS master's degree from Johns Hopkins, 67% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the IS master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 30% of degree recipients. That is 3% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a master's in IS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	40
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Related Majors

• Computer Systems Networking
• Information Technology
• Computer Information Systems

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 MD, the home state for Johns Hopkins University.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Systems Software Developers	15,430	$119,860
Computer Workers	13,720	$113,330
Computer and Information Systems Managers	10,590	$154,870
Computer and Information Research Scientists	2,900	$119,180
Computer Science Professors	770	$107,350

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 Lester Spence under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.