General Information Science at SUNY Polytechnic Institute

What traits are you looking for in a information science school? To help you decide if SUNY Polytechnic Institute is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's information science program.

SUNY Poly is located in Utica, New York and approximately 3,044 students attend the school each year.

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.

SUNY Poly General Information Science Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science
• Master’s Degree in Information Science

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.

For those who are interested in distance learning, SUNY Poly does offer online courses in information science for the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

SUNY Poly General Information Science Rankings

Information Science Student Demographics at SUNY Poly

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

SUNY Poly General Information Science Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 54% of information science master's degrees went to men and 46% went to women.

Of the students who received a information science master's degree from SUNY Poly, 77% 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 information science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	10
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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 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.