Information Science at SUNY Polytechnic Institute

If you plan to study information science, take a look at what SUNY Polytechnic Institute has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SUNY Poly is located in Utica, New York and approximately 3,044 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 26 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.

SUNY Poly Information Science Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in IS

Online Classes Are Available at SUNY Poly

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.

SUNY Poly does offer online education options in IS for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Master’s Degree

SUNY Poly Information Science Rankings

IS Student Demographics at SUNY Poly

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

SUNY Poly Information Science Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 26 students earned a master's degree in IS from SUNY Poly. About 46% of these graduates were women and the other 54% were men.

Of the students who received a IS master's degree from SUNY Poly, 73% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	19
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• 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 NY, the home state for SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

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 Bssasidhar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.