What can you do with an information sciences degree?
Where information sciences graduates actually work, and how exposed those jobs are to AI. Built from ACS 2020-2024 5-year PUMS: 8,018 people whose bachelor's degree is in this field, aged 22-64.
About 41 in 100 information sciences graduates work in computer occupations or as computer and information systems managers, but no single job dominates the way it does for computer science. About 14 in 100 people with an information sciences bachelor's degree work as software developers. Another 5 in 100 are computer and information systems managers, 4 in 100 are computer systems analysts, and 3 in 100 each are management analysts and project management specialists.
Accountants, customer service representatives and financial managers each take about 1 in 100.
Half of the field falls outside the jobs we score. The biggest groups are managers in other roles and computer occupations not listed elsewhere, each about 5 in 100, computer support specialists at about 4 in 100, and information security analysts, computer programmers and network administrators at about 2 in 100 each. We have no pages for those yet, so this page covers only about 51% of information sciences graduates, just over our 50% minimum.
The numbers come from Census data on more than 8,000 people with an information sciences degree, matched to the occupation pages on this site.
How exposed are information sciences jobs to AI?
We publish Insufficient evidence for information sciences because our pages cover only about 51% of graduates, below the 60% we need to give a verdict, and because the research on this field is contested. What we can say is about the jobs we do score. About 79 in 100 of the graduates in those jobs are in jobs rated At risk.
The largest group, software developers at about 14 in 100, carries an estimated 83 out of 100 structural exposure, and computer and information systems managers (88), computer systems analysts (84) and management analysts (88) are At risk as well.
This page does not show how graduates have fared. BLS projects growth of 8% to 16% for these jobs through 2035, and the research that finds weak early outcomes for this field is contested on whether AI is the cause. Roughly half of graduates work in jobs we have no page for, and the sample of about 8,000 people is small.
These figures cover the 51% of information sciences graduates who work in occupations we score. The other 49% work in roles we do not cover (largest: Other Managers; Computer Occupations, all Other; Computer Support Specialists). Signal 01 averages each job's own structural exposure, weighted by how many graduates work there; it describes tasks, not whether jobs will disappear.
Where information sciences graduates actually work
These 10 occupations account for 47% of information sciences graduates. The rest are spread across many smaller occupations, each under 1%. Graduates often work outside the field.
Careers next door to information sciences, least exposed first
Curated related careers of the main occupations above, ranked by structural exposure (lowest first), so you can see which neighboring routes are less and more exposed.
What the research says about AI and information sciences graduates
Information sciences sits in the most scrutinized group of degrees, but the studies say less about it than about computer science. The Census Bureau working paper (September 2026) places it in the most exposed tenth of majors, which it describes as dominated by computer science, information systems and related software degrees, and its appendix table lists negative 2024 employment and earnings estimates for the field, both smaller than those for computer science.
The Dallas Fed article names computer science, computer engineering and languages as most exposed and does not mention information sciences.
Neither the NBER paper nor Employ America reports results for this field. The studies disagree about how much any graduate weakness is due to AI, and the Census authors note that graduate school and self-employment could explain up to half of the employment gap in the most exposed group. Our own evidence is the job-level work: see computer science for the closest degree and the fuller picture of that debate.
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How this page was built
Graduate shares come from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS 2020-2024 5-year PUMS), field of degree "Information Sciences" (code 2105), weighted to the population. Each occupation we cover is scored with the numbers already published on its own page on this site, then averaged by graduate share. Occupations without a page are shown but never scored. Graduates aged 22-64 are included, so the mix reflects the whole working-age group, not only recent graduates. The survey records the most recent occupation of people who were not working when surveyed (unemployed or out of the labor force), and they are counted in it: across the degrees on this site that is about 9 in 100 graduates, between 6 and 13 in 100 depending on the degree, so "work as" on this page means "work or last worked as". Sources: www2.census.gov, www.bls.gov, www.bls.gov, www.bls.gov, www.bls.gov, www2.census.gov, www.dallasfed.org, www.nber.org, employamerica.org. This page is general information, not career or educational advice.