About the College of Information Sciences and Technology
The Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology is an interdisciplinary program that integrates computer science, information technology, and system users at the individual, group, organizational, and societal levels. Degrees are offered at the associate, baccalaureate, masters, and Ph.D. levels.
The Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology is an interdisciplinary program that integrates computer science, information technology, and system users at the individual, group, organizational, and societal levels. Degrees are offered at the associate, baccalaureate, masters, and Ph.D. levels.
Facts and Figures (as of fall 2010)
- Penn State Campuses Offering IST: 20
- Faculty: 120
- Undergraduate Enrollment (Statewide): 2400
- Associate, B.S., B.A., M.S., Ph.D. degrees
- Graduate Enrollment: 190 non-resident students, 99 resident students
- 3,500 interns
- > $60 million cumulative research funding
- 70+ new courses
- Online courses
Rankings
- IST Online Programs ranks No. 1 in the U.S. among information technology degrees (The Best Colleges)
- Webometrics Ranking of World Repositories (2010), CiteSeerX 2nd among Top 400 Repositories
- The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7th in Top Research Universities Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index of Information Science/Studies – 2007
Faculty Awards
- 1 ACM CHI Lifetime Achievement award
- 4 IEEE Fellows
- 1 HFES Fellow
- 2 ACM Fellows
- 8 NSF Young Investigators and CAREER award recipients
- 3 Fulbright award winners
