Informatics
Informatics is a interdisciplinary major offered at the University of Michigan[1]. Informatics combines computer science, human-computer interaction, and the organization and structure of information sciences. Informatics looks at the design of technology beyond the technical structure. This major is more commonly known around Europe and gradually growing in North America. Students studying informatics learn the representation, processing and communication in natural and artificial systems, including emerging media, avatars, and cloud computing. An Informatics degree is valuable in the flexibility it gives its graduates. ]Many Informatics majors have the opportunity to work in careers such as Engineering, Analytics, Consulting, Management, Statistics, and many more. Those Informatics graduates who choose to continue their education upon graduation tend to go to Law School, Business School, Medicine, Statistics, and others.
Branches
- Bioinformatics
- Geoinformatics
- Business Informatics
- Environmental Informatics
- Social Informatics
Undergraduate Programs
- Columbia University
- Indiana University
- Northern Kentucky University
- SUNY University at Albany
- SUNY University at Buffalo
- University of California, Irvine
- University of Illinois
- University of Michigan
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- University of Washington
- Vanderbilt University
Related Courses
- Statistics
- Mathematics
- Computer Science
- Ethics
- Social Psychology