Information Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

If you plan to study information 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 has a total student population of 52,679. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 367 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.

UIUC Information Science Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in IS
• Doctorate Degree in IS

UIUC Information Science Rankings

There were 15 students who received their doctoral degrees in IS, making the school the #3 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

IS Student Demographics at UIUC

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

UIUC Information Science Master’s Program

Of the 367 students who earned a master's degree in Information Science from UIUC in 2020-2021, 29% were men and 71% were women.

Of the students who received a IS master's degree from UIUC, 53% 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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's in IS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	26
White	193
International Students	117
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Related Majors

• Computer Science

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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,770	$143,900
Systems Software Developers	17,130	$108,570
Computer Science Professors	1,430	$83,270
Computer and Information Research Scientists	500	$113,350

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 Beyond My ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.