Bioinformatics at University of California - Los Angeles

If you plan to study bioinformatics, take a look at what University of California - Los Angeles has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UCLA is located in Los Angeles, California and approximately 44,589 students attend the school each year.

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

UCLA Bioinformatics Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics

UCLA Bioinformatics Rankings

There were 5 students who received their doctoral degrees in bioinformatics, making the school the #14 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Bioinformatics Student Demographics at UCLA

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the bioinformatics majors at University of California - Los Angeles.

UCLA Bioinformatics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 60% of bioinformatics master's degrees went to men and 40% went to women.

In the bioinformatics master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 80% of degree recipients. That is 43% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of California - Los Angeles with a master's in bioinformatics.

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

Related Majors

• Biostatistics
• Biomathematics

Careers That Bioinformatics Grads May Go Into

A degree in bioinformatics can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for University of California - Los Angeles.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Software Applications Developers	148,550	$127,950
Computer Workers	74,690	$103,270
Computer and Information Research Scientists	7,300	$136,310

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 Nikhil Kulkarni under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.