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

Spring 2024 Demographics

  • 600+ Undergraduate students
  • 44% Female/nonbinary
  • 79% Domestic
  • 15% Black and LatinX students

Top Roles

  • Data Science & Analytics
  • Business Intelligence & Management Consulting
  • IT
  • HCI/UX
  • Cybersecurity

Internship and Full-time Employers include

  • Accenture
  • Aleysian
  • Alteryx
  • Amazon
  • Axtria
  • Bank of America
  • bp
  • Capgemini
  • Capital One
  • Crowe
  • CVS Health
  • Deloitte
  • Discover Financial
  • Duff & Phelps
  • Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
  • General Motors
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • KPMG
  • Maven Wave
  • McDonald’s
  • Medtronic
  • Microsoft
  • Optum
  • PwC
  • Razorfish
  • Synchrony
  • Twitch
  • United Airlines
  • Walgreens
  • West Monroe Partners

Undergraduate Internship Snapshots

Alumni Data

Titles include

  • Advanced Applications Engineer
  • Analyst
  • Associate Analyst – Data Protection
  • Associate Product Manager
  • BI or Business Analyst
  • Cloud Analyst
  • Consultant
  • Cyber, Privacy, and Forensics Consulting Associate
  • Cyber Security Associate
  • Cyber & Strategic Risk Analyst
  • Data Scientist
  • Decision Science Analyst
  • Designer
  • Information Security Consultant
  • Insights & Data Consultant
  • IT Engineer
  • IT Rotational Analyst
  • Supply Chain Analyst
  • Technology Consultant
  • UX Designer
  • Web Development Specialist

Full-time Employment by Industry

  • 30% Consulting
  • 30% Finance
  • 10% IT & Technology
  • 10% Aerospace & Aviation
    Other areas include Education; Arts, Entertainment, & Recreation; Transportation & Warehousing; Health, Utilities, Trade

Full-time employment by role

  • 36% Data Science, Analytics, Engineering
  • 14% Cybersecuirty
  • 14% IT
  • 9% Consulting
  • Other roles include engineering, product management, software, UX, and web

2021-2022 Graduates

  • 100% of respondents employed or enrolled in continuing education
  • Average starting salary: $82,429

MS in Information Management (MSIM)

Spring 2024 Demographics

  • 266 Graduate students
  • 48% Female/nonbinary
  • Primarily international students
  • Common undergraduate degrees include Engineering, IT, Information Systems, and Business.
  • 2022 MSIM class: 64% had 1+ years’ full-time experience, 46% had 2+ years’ experience, and 21% had 3+ years’ experience. Students without full-time experience spent an average of 9 months in internships.

Alumni 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

Employers include

  • AGCO
  • Amazon
  • AWS
  • Aspen Technology
  • AT&T
  • Capital One
  • Caterpillar
  • COUNTRY Financial
  • Deloitte
  • Discover Financial Services
  • EY
  • Facebook/Meta
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Google
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • KPMG
  • Maven Wave
  • Micron Technology
  • Microsoft
  • Motorola Mobility
  • Northwestern Medicine
  • PwC
  • Sigma Aldrich
  • Synchrony Financial
  • US DOD
  • Wayfair
  • Yahoo!
  • ZS Associates

Graduate Internship & Fellowship Snapshots

2021-2022 Graduates

  • 93.5% of respondents employed full-time or enrolled in continuing education
  • Average starting salary: $104,000

Employment by industry

  • 35% IT & Technology
  • 26% Consulting
  • 16% Finance & Insurance
  • Additional industries include government, health, education, scientific & technical services, utilities, trade, marketing, agriculture

MS in Library and Information Science (MSLIS)

Spring 2024 Demographics

  • 541 Enrolled
  • 80% Female/nonbinary 
  • 97% Domestic

Average starting salary by industry:

  • $56,148 Government
  • $50,000 K-12 Education
  • $49,426 Higher Education
  • $47,474 Public Libraries

Graduate Internship Snapshot

MSLIS Research Internship at the Federal Reserve Board

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

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 Snapshot

PhD Kainen Bell’s Wikimedia Race and Knowledge Equity Fellowship

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