Jobs in Computer Science

Computer Science chair Michael Soltys says job outlook for math, statistics, computer science majors “excellent.” #DiscoverCI

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A thank you to Prof AJ Bieszczad for providing the references below; as you can see, the job outlook for Computer Science and IT is excellent!

Articles about jobs:

• http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs
• http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings
• http://money.cnn.com/pf/best-jobs/
• http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fjle45heli/no-1-data-scientist/

Information from .gov regarding career outlook:

• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/software-developers.htm
• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/home.htm

For example, just Software Developers have 1,018,000 jobs available, and the page for Mathematicians states 3,900:

• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/mathematicians.htm

There are ten categories of jobs for CS graduates together with 3,200,000 jobs with 615,000 growth between 2012-2022.

For security specialists there are 75,000 jobs with 27,000 predicted growth; see:

• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/information-security-analysts.htm

Here are all ten categories with the number of jobs:

• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/home.htm