| SBU CIS Department Quality |
| Number of years SBU has had a Computer and Information Sciences Department |
20+ |
| SBU CIS top 10 finishes in national competitions in last two years |
7 |
| Number of Christian schools with a top-10 finish at AITP Nationals 2004 AND 2005 |
1 (SBU) |
| SBU CIS first-place finishes in Missouri competitions last year |
12 |
| Number of SBU Computer Science students who have studied at U.S. National Labs |
12 |
| Fortune 500 Top 10 Companies who regularly hire SBU CIS students |
3 * |
| Percent of CIS Department faculty who hold or are pursuing Ph.D.’s |
80% (4 of 5) |
| * Wal-Mart (Information Systems Division) (1st of 500), Conoco-Phillips (7th of 500), IBM (9th of 500) |
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| SBU Value Comparisons |
| Average private school cost per year (including room & board) |
$30,000+* |
| Cost of SBUper year (includes tuition, fees, room & board) |
$16,230** |
| Average annual cost of SBU after grants and scholarships |
$8,547** |
| Average annual cost of SBU after grants, scholarships and loans |
$5,659** |
| Number of consecutive years SBU has been listed in America ’s 100 Best College Buys |
9 |
| Number of private schools in MO that are more expensive than SBU |
20 of 24** |
| Average lifetime amount a college graduate will make over a high school graduate |
$1,000,000* |
| Average starting salary for a computer science or information science graduate |
$45,705*** |
| *SOURCE: http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/20/pf/college/myths_0502/ |
| **SOURCE: SBU Department of Admissions |
***NACE 2004 Annual Salary Survey
(Actually, SBU’s CIS Dept. graduates do better than this average) |
| Number of lives being changed because of attendance at SBU in 2004-2005 |
3000+ |