Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

If you plan to study computer science, take a look at what University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and approximately 52,679 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 543 students received their master's degree in compsci.

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

UIUC Computer Science Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in CompSci
• Doctorate Degree in CompSci

UIUC Computer Science Rankings

There were 52 students who received their doctoral degrees in compsci, making the school the #2 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

CompSci Student Demographics at UIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the compsci majors at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

UIUC Computer Science Master’s Program

Of the 543 compsci students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from UIUC, about 80% were men and 20% were women.

In the compsci master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 22% of degree recipients. That is 8% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's in compsci.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	92
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	129
International Students	233
Other Races/Ethnicities	73

Related Majors

• Information Science

Careers That CompSci Grads May Go Into

A degree in compsci can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Software Applications Developers	30,500	$96,610
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,770	$143,900
Systems Software Developers	17,130	$108,570
Computer Programmers	11,350	$91,860

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 Beyond My ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.