Department Stats

Student to Faculty Ratios

27:1 undergraduate students to faculty member
5:1 graduate students to faculty member involved in graduate programs

Jobs

On average, over 80% of Bachelor’s in Computer Science graduates report that they found employment or went on to graduate school upon graduation. Of those reporting employment upon graduation 88% found employment in Idaho.
Graduates are employed at companies such as Micron, Kount, HPi, HPe, Clearwater Analytics, Cradlepoint, Paylocity, Tracer, Google, Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, Dropbox, EA Sports, Blizzard, Intel, Nvidia, Facebook, and many others.
[Check out Boise’s software ecosystem map of local companies.]
On average, 70% of undergraduates had experiential learning experiences during their undergraduate study. These include summer and part-time school year internships at companies and organizations, undergraduate research with faculty, service learning in the community, and others.

Undergraduate Students

Number of students in undergraduate programs by year, from 2012 to present

Fall Term	CS BS (Emphasis*)	CS Minor	Cybersecurity Minor	Data Science for STEM Certificate
2024	735 (158/0/15/104)	47	27	10
2023	683 (132/0/16/77)	55	30	8
2022	668 (110/2/17/49)	59	18	9
2021	730 (88/2/9/20)	65	27	8
2020	699 (62/3/6/6)	73	31	2
2019	694 (69/5/3/-)	89	30	–
2018	713 (69/4/-/-)	116	35	–
2017	711 (59/7/-/-)	101	37	–
2016	687 (12/5/-/-)	81	47	–
2015	600 (5/-/-/-)	71	40	–
2014	563	72	–	–
2013	482	66	–	–
2012	380	68	–	–

* Computer Science BS may select no emphasis or an emphasis in cybersecurity, secondary education, entrepreneurship, or machine learning as part of their degree plan. The enrollment for these emphasis programs is noted in parentheses: (Cybersecurity / Secondary Education / Entrepreneurship / Machine Learning )

Undergraduate Degrees Conferred

Number of undergraduate degrees conferred by year, from 2013-14 to present

Academic Year	CS BS (Emphasis*)	CS Minor	Cybersecurity Minor	Data Science for STEM Certificate
2024.-25**	51			–
2023-24	109 (21/0/0/13)	11	5	2
2022-23	105 (23/0/0/3)	11	3	1
2021-22	126 (24/0/0/1)	23	4	2
2020-21	98 (7/1/0/-)	14	5	2
2019-20	111 (13/-/1/-)	23	2	–
2018-19	98 (6/-/1/-)	16	1	–
2017-18	98 (8/-/-/-)	19	4	–
2016-17	69 (1/-/-/-)	11	4	–
2015-16	63	20	4	–
2014-15	47	10	–	–
2013-14	27	6	–	–

* Students may select an emphasis in Cybersecurity, Entrepreneurship, Secondary Education, or Machine Learning. The parenthetical numbers are the breakdown into respective emphases.

Graduate Students

Number of students in Graduate programs by year, from 2012 to present

Fall Term	Computing PhD (Emphasis*)	CS MS	Cybersecurity MS CS Emphasis	CS Teacher Endorsement
2024	69 (27/6/11/25)	41	7	5
2023	65 (19/7/14/24)	32	5	1
2022	61 (21/7/14/17)	40	4	3
2021	66 (22/10/12/20)	46	2	1
2020	53 (21/7/11/13)	37	–	6
2019	42 (20/5/5/5)	43	–	6
2018	30 (14/9/7/-)	55	–	15
2017	15 (8/3/4/-)	42	–	11
2016	3	51	–	19
2015	–	54	–	11
2014	–	39	–	–
2013	–	25	–	–
2012	–	27	–	–

* Computing PhD students select an emphasis in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computational Math Science & Engineering (CMSE), or Data Science. The parenthetical numbers are the breakdown into these respective emphases (Ex: CS/Cyber/CMSE/Data Science).

Graduate Degrees Conferred

Number of Graduate degrees conferred by year, from 2013-14 to present

Academic Year	Computing PhD	CS MS	Cybersecurity MS
2024-25**	7	6	–
2023-24	12 (4/2/5/1)	11	6
2022-23	7 (2/0/3/2)	18	2
2021-22	5 (2/3/0/0))	13	–
2020-21	3 (1/0/2/0)	8	–
2019-20	3 (2/1/0/0)	21	–
2018-19	–	17	–
2017-18	–	10	–
2016-17	–	16	–
2015-16	–	7	–
2014-15	–	8	–
2013-14	–	4	–

* Computing PhD students select an emphasis in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computational Math Science & Engineering (CMSE), or Data Science. The parenthetical numbers are the breakdown into these respective emphases (Ex: CS/Cyber/CMSE/Data Science).