Launch your career in Data Analytics, Computer Science or Esports
Careers in gaming, robotics, cybersecurity and other emerging fields have transformed Pittsburgh from a former steel city to the future smart-tech city. Carlow University sits at the gateway of the region’s largest concentration of technology-related institutions, talent and jobs.
Your interest in Data Analytics, Computer Science or Esports can lead to high-paying careers in banking, healthcare, finance, self-driving vehicles, and more.
Pittsburgh...Best Cities for Techies
The website livability.com ranks Pittsburgh #7 among Best Cities for Techies. The Brookings Institute says this: “Few cities have such a naturally occurring innovation district as Pittsburgh’s greater Oakland neighborhood.”
“As some city-defining industries have struggled in recent years, Pittsburgh has had to reinvent itself, and trendy new neighborhoods and tech districts have sprouted up all over the city.”
(Source: Grand Canyon University, 2022)
Carlow Tech Programs
Programs at a Glance
Computer Science (BS)
Customize your study for a future in front-end or back-end programming — and help marry code and content across the digital landscape.
- Google-endorsed curriculum
- Project-based
- Three-phase sequence: master computer science one phase at a time
- Job-ready skills: coding and programming,web, app and user experience design, deployment & accessibility
- Hybrid — on campus with online options
- Pittsburgh (Oakland) Campus
Why Computer Science?
If you have the aptitude and interest to learn core computer science ideas and skills, you can access an almost endless variety of career opportunities — from web development, cybersecurity and robotics, to gaming and digital product development.
Employment
Median pay for Computer Scientists is $77,000 per year. Jobs are projected to grow 21% over the next 10 years. (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Data Analytics (BS)
The tools you learn in data analytics allow you to lead decision-making teams across any industry — entertainment, travel, banking or consumer brands.
- Insights drawn from statistics, computer science, and data-based business management
- Job-ready skills: SQL, Power BI, Python and R
- Learn data structures and algorithms, the building blocks of machine learning
- Enhance data insights with visualization and storytelling skills
- Hybrid — on campus with online options
- Pittsburgh (Oakland) Campus
$10,000 Annual Scholarship
Data analytics students may be eligible to receive up to $10,000 in an annual needs-based scholarship funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Why Data Analysis?
If you like the idea of merging fundamental math and computer science skills with a general aptitude for business strategy, you can help any business turn stored data into actionable insights, to improve marketing, human resources, logistics and supply chain efficiency.
Employment
Median pay for Data Analysts is $82,326 per year. Jobs are projected to grow 25% over the next 10 years. (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Esports Business Management (BS)
Learn technical and business skills as you help Esports to advance the next frontier of sport business.
- Explore all realms of esports, including facility management, event production and marketing
- Job ready skills: game design, game and event management, Esport business consulting
- Pittsburgh (Oakland) Campus
- Local internship and job opportunities with companies like Simcoach Games, and Schell Games
- Compete on an esports team while getting your degree
Global Esports team The Pittsburgh Knights partnered with PNC Bank to create Build Your Empire, a podcast and advocacy campaign that champions women in the Esports industry.
Why Esports?
As a graduate with a degree in Esports business management, you can find a career path in the professional, competitive amateur and grassroots Esports markets. You can shape your degree and internship experience to focus on areas such as management, production, operations, marketing, media, sales, broadcast and streaming, sponsorship, analytics, content creation, player relations, law and organizational governance.
Employment
Median pay for people employed in Esports occupations is $65,307 per year. Jobs are projected to grow 13% over the next 10 years. (Sources: Zip Recruiter and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Pittsburgh Top Tech Employers
Increasing Diversity in Tech
Carlow has a deep commitment to increasing representation of women and other minorities in tech-related majors and careers. Multiple studies show that women generally, and Black men and women specifically, are unrepresented in computer science and other tech programs. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, of all STEM graduates in 2016, 6.5% were Black.
Big Tech Lagging
The number of Black employees holding leadership or highly compensated technical roles at America’s largest tech firms remains low. At Google, only 2.6% of leadership and 2.4% of technical workers are Black. At Facebook, Black people make up only 3.1% of those in leadership roles and 1.5% of those in technical roles.
Diversity in Computer Science
Federal data shows that from 2017 to 2019, only 8.6% of computer science graduates were Black. Computer science also has one of the lowest percentages of female degree recipients. In fact, only 19.9% of computer science undergraduate degrees were awarded to women in 2018, despite 50.8% of the population being women.
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