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

Fall 2024 Demographics

  • ~790 Undergraduate students
  • 44% Female/nonbinary
  • 79% Domestic
  • 15% Black and LatinX students

Top Roles for 2023 Graduates

  • 21% Data Analytics
  • 18% Software (dev., engineering, etc.)
  • 18% IT
  • 13% Consulting
  • 10% HCI/UX
  • 5% Cybersecurity

BS 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

BS Internship Snapshots

BS Alumni Data

Titles (all years) 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 (all years)

  • 18% Consulting
  • 18% Internet, Software, IT
  • 16% Banking, Credit, Financial Services
  • 6% Food & Beverage
  • 5% Accounting
  • 5% Aerospace & Aviation
  • 5% Healthcare Services & Hospitals

Full-time Employment by Role (all years)

  • 19% Data Analytics
  • 18% Consulting
  • 16% IT
  • 12% Software
  • 8% UX
  • 6% Cybersecurity

2022-2023 Graduates

  • 88% of respondents employed or enrolled in continuing education
  • Average starting salary: $85,992
  • Average signing bonus: $10,979

MS in Information Management (MSIM)

Fall 2024 Demographics

  • ~450 Graduate students
  • 49% 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.

MSIM 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

MSIM 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

2022-2023 Graduates

  • 91% of respondents employed full-time or enrolled in continuing education
  • Average starting salary: $109,760
  • Average signing bonus: $13,604

MSIM Employment by industry (all years)

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

MSIM Employment by roles (all years)

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

MS in Library and Information Science (MSLIS)

Spring 2024 Demographics

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

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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