Medical Informatics at Northern Kentucky University

If you are interested in studying medical informatics, you may want to check out the program at Northern Kentucky University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

NKU is located in Highland Heights, Kentucky and has a total student population of 16,211.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Medical Informatics section at the bottom of this page.

NKU Medical Informatics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Informatics
• Master’s Degree in Medical Informatics

NKU Medical Informatics Rankings

The medical informatics major at NKU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Medical Informatics. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Medical Informatics Student Demographics at NKU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the medical informatics majors at Northern Kentucky University.

NKU Medical Informatics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of medical informatics bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical medical informatics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% men. So male students are more repesented at NKU since its program graduates 20% more men than average.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in medical informatics at NKU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a bachelor's in medical informatics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

NKU Medical Informatics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 30% of medical informatics master's degrees went to men and 70% went to women.

Of the students who received a medical informatics master's degree from NKU, 55% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the medical informatics master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 45% of degree recipients. That is 5% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a master's in medical informatics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

Careers That Medical Informatics Grads May Go Into

A degree in medical informatics can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for KY, the home state for Northern Kentucky University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Software Applications Developers	5,700	$86,300
Computer Workers	2,500	$79,420

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Samvscat under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.