Study: Job placement, salaries for Information Systems majors exceed national averages for college grads

Published and released in June 2016, the second installment of the IS Job Index culls the responses of nearly 1,700 IS graduates of the Class of 2015, from 30 universities nationwide. Findings from the IS Job Index include:

• IS undergraduates earned higher starting salaries than the next-closest business-school graduates, with averages of $57,817 for undergraduates, and $67,632 for graduate students.
• IS students achieved an 80-percent graduation rate; compared to the national average of 40 percent.
• Of IS graduates, more than 35 percent are minorities, making the field more ethnically diverse than the U.S. college-graduate population. Yet there is still evidence of a glass ceiling, as female IS graduate students made less ($63,206) than their male peers ($72,001).

"The Information Systems Job Index demonstrates the strength of the IS field, in regard to jobs, salaries, demographics, and industry growth," said co-author Dr. Munir Mandviwalla, Chair of the Management Information Systems (MIS) department at Temple University's Fox School of Business. "This data is critical for parents of college-age children, current and prospective students seeking an accurate job outlook, employers, and policymakers – and it cannot be found anywhere else."

"The IS Job Index represents a major effort to capture the pulse of the Information Systems job market," said Jason Thatcher, President of AIS. "The results confirm that the hot IS job market continues to strengthen, with growing demand for technically apt, socially skilled college graduates."

Mandviwalla conducted research for the IS Job Index and co-authored it along with Dr. Crystal Harold, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management at Temple's Fox School, and David Yastremsky, a senior MIS major in the Fox School Honor's program.

The AIS-Temple Fox School Job Index is the only systematic assessment of the IS job market. It is a joint project to produce reliable national-level data on placement, job type, satisfaction, and related factors like career services, knowledge level, preparedness, and search strategies.

More: To read the Information Systems Job Index, visit isjobindex.com.

Interview requests: Please email Mandviwalla ([email protected]), Harold ([email protected]), and Yastremsky ([email protected]) to request interviews.

Christopher A. Vito
Associate Director of Communications
Fox School of Business
[email protected], 215-204-4115

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SOURCE Temple University's Fox School of Business