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

Fall 2025 Anticipated Enrollment

1,100 undergraduates
45% female
80% domestic
15% Black and LatinX

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

  • $85,050 median starting salary
  • 95% 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 Anticipated Enrollment

  • ~395 students
  • 49% Female/nonbinary
  • Primarily international students
  • Undergraduate degrees include Engineering, IT, Information Systems, and Business

MS in INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OUTCOMES

2022-2023 MSIM Salary Data

  • $109,760 Average starting salary
  • $13,604 Average signing bonus
  • 91% destination rate

Top Roles

  • 26% Data Analytics
  • 14% Software
  • 13% Data Engineer
  • 10% Data Scientist
  • 8% IT
  • 5% Business Intelligence

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

  • 25% Internet, IT
  • 14% Consulting
  • 12% Banking, Credit, Financial Services

Employers Include

  • AGCO
  • Amazon
  • AWS
  • Aspen Technology
  • AT&T
  • Bayer
  • 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

MS in Library and Information Science (MSLIS)

Fall 2025 Anticipated Enrollment

  • Enrolled
  • 80% 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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