Bioinformatics at Vanderbilt University

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

Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and approximately 13,537 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.

Vanderbilt Bioinformatics Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics

Vanderbilt Bioinformatics Rankings

There were 6 students who received their doctoral degrees in bioinformatics, making the school the #9 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Bioinformatics Student Demographics at Vanderbilt

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

Vanderbilt Bioinformatics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 63% of bioinformatics master's degrees went to men and 38% went to women.

Of the students who received a bioinformatics master's degree from Vanderbilt, 75% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Biostatistics

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 TN, the home state for Vanderbilt University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Software Applications Developers	5,870	$87,630
Computer Workers	4,510	$74,000
Computer and Information Research Scientists	230	$113,960

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 Dansan4444 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.