Informatics at University of Southern California

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

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and approximately 46,287 students attend the school each year.

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

USC Informatics Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at USC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, USC does offer online courses in informatics for the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

USC Informatics Rankings

The informatics major at USC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for 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.

Informatics Student Demographics at USC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the informatics majors at University of Southern California.

USC Informatics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 57% of informatics bachelor's degrees went to men and 43% went to women. The typical informatics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 41% women. So female students are more repesented at USC since its program graduates 1% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 22% more racial-ethnic minorities in its informatics bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	2
International Students	11
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

USC Informatics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 52% of informatics master's degrees went to men and 48% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	44
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	18
International Students	238
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Related Majors

• Other Computer & Information Sciences
• Artificial Intelligence

Careers That Informatics Grads May Go Into

A degree in 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 CA, the home state for University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Software Applications Developers	148,550	$127,950
Systems Software Developers	88,910	$131,700
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 Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.