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BS in Information Sciences (BSIS) &
BSIS + Data Science (BSIS+DS)

Fall 2025 Enrollment

900+ undergraduates
40% female
77% domestic
13% URM

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS OUTCOMES

Top Alumni Roles
2021-2024

  • 26% Data Analytics, Science, & Engineering
  • 16% IT
  • 12% Consulting
  • 8% Software
  • 7% Cybersecurity
  • 7% HCI/UX

2023-2024 Salary Data

  • $87,807 average starting salary
  • 97% of respondents secured a first destination within 6 months of graduation

Alumni Titles*

  • Advanced Applications Engineer
  • Analyst
  • BI or Business Analyst
  • Cloud Analyst
  • Consultant
  • Cyber, Privacy, and Forensics Consulting
  • Cyber Security
  • Cyber & Strategic Risk Analyst
  • Data Engineering & Analytics
  • Data Protection and Cryptography
  • Data Scientist
  • Decision Science Analyst
  • Designer
  • Digital Leadership

  • Global Technology Engineer
  • Information Security Consultant
  • Information Strategist
  • Information Systems Analyst
  • Insights & Data Consultant
  • IT Engineer
  • IT Analyst
  • Product Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Software Engineer
  • Supply Chain Analyst
  • Technology Consultant
  • UX Designer
  • Web Development Specialist

* excluding modifiers (associate, jr., sr., lead, etc.)

Top Industries
2021-2024

  • 30% Consulting (including IT Consulting)
  • 16% Tech, IT, Software, Web
  • 13% Finance & Insurance
  • 4% Healthcare Svcs.
  • 4% Food & Beverage

Full-time Employers

  • AbbVie
  • Accenture
  • Aleysian
  • Alteryx
  • Amazon
  • AMD
  • Axtria
  • Bank of America
  • bp
  • Capgemini
  • Capital One
  • Caterpillar
  • Crowe
  • CVS Health
  • Deloitte
  • Discover Financial
  • Duff & Phelps
  • Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago

bold=top employers

  • General Motors
  • Google
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • KPMG
  • Maven Wave
  • McDonald’s Corporation
  • Medtronic
  • Microsoft
  • Northern Trust Corporation
  • Optum
  • Protiviti
  • PwC
  • Razorfish
  • Synchrony
  • Twitch
  • United Airlines
  • Walgreens
  • West Monroe Partners

BS Internship Spotlights

MS in Information Management (MSIM)

Fall 2025 Enrollment

  • 338 Students
  • 48% Female/nonbinary
  • 5% Domestic students
  • 71% with undergraduate degrees in Engineering, CS, IS, IT, AI, DS
  • 17% with undergraduate degrees in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, etc.

MS in INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OUTCOMES

2023-2024 MSIM Salary Data

  • $105,500 Average starting salary
  • $11,038 Average signing bonus
  • 88% first destination rate

Top Roles

  • 28% Data Analytics
  • 22% Software
  • 13% Data Science
  • 9% Data Engineer
  • 6% Consultant
  • 6% Product Manager

Titles Include

  • Algorithm Engineer
  • Analyst
  • Audit Analytics
  • BI Analyst
  • BI Developer
  • Big Data Software Engineer
  • Consultant, Cybersecurity & Privacy Associate
  • Data Analyst
  • Data Scientist
  • Digital Marketing Officer
  • Digital Technology Analyst
  • Digital Transformation Manager

  • NLP Product Analyst
  • Product Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Research Analyst
  • Risk Analyst
  • Security Analyst
  • Sr. Associate-Modeling and Analytics
  • Sr. Data Scientist-Global People Analyst
  • Software Development Engineer
  • Software Engineer
  • UI Engineer
  • UX Designer,
  • Web Developer

Destinations by Industry

  • 20% Finance & Insurance
  • 17% Tech, IT, Software
  • 11% Consulting
  • 9% Healthcare
  • 9% Higher Education
  • 9% Manufacturing

Employers Include

  • Amazon
  • AMD
  • Barclays
  • Bectran
  • Boston Consulting
  • Caterpillar
  • COUNTRY Financial
  • CVS Health
  • Discover
  • FedEx
  • Fetch

  • Grainger
  • Graybar
  • Microsoft
  • Motorola Solutions
  • PNC Financial Services
  • PwC
  • Synchrony
  • Tesla
  • Vitruvian
  • ZS Associates

MS in Library and Information Science (MSLIS)

Fall 2025 Enrollment

  • 585 Enrolled
    • 198 On-campus
    • 387 Online students
  • 82% Female/nonbinary 
  • 97% Domestic

Industry Related Titles Include

  • Archivist
  • Cognitive Analytics Consultant
  • Conflicts Research Analyst
  • Content Program Manager
  • Data Curation & Stewardship Coordinator
  • Data Librarian
  • Data Analytics/Engineer/Science
  • Digital Archivist
  • Digital Asset Project Manager
  • Experience Designer
  • Instructional Technology Consultant
  • IP Researcher
  • Knowledge Management Coordinator
  • Media Archivist
  • Metadata Archivist
  • ML Researcher
  • Ontologist
  • Processing Archivist
  • UX Researcher
  • Web Developer

Industry and Government Employers Include:

  • Activision Blizzard
  • Capgemini
  • Caterpillar
  • Congressional Research Service
  • Ex Libris
  • Getty Images
  • Guggenheim Museum
  • IBM Global Business Services
  • Leo Burnett
  • Library of Congress
  • MacArthur Foundation
  • National Gallery of Art
  • NBC Universal
  • Wiley

Graduate Internship Snapshot

MSLIS Research Internship at the Federal Reserve Board

PhD in Information Sciences and Informatics

Over 180 doctoral students are enrolled in the iSchool at Illinois. Their research areas and methods include cloud computing, data curation, data mining, data science, human-computer interaction, impact assessment, information retrieval, ML, NLP, network analysis, ontology mapping, social computing, social informatics, topic modeling, and web & data semantics. We invite you to peruse their profiles.

Student Spotlight

PhD Kainen Bell’s Wikimedia Race and Knowledge Equity Fellowship

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