Medical Informatics at Vanderbilt University

Every medical informatics school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the medical informatics program at Vanderbilt University stacks up to those at other schools.

Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and has a total student population of 13,537.

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.

Vanderbilt Medical Informatics Degrees Available

Master’s Degree in Medical Informatics

Online Classes Are Available at Vanderbilt

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Vanderbilt offers distance education options for medical informatics at the following degree levels:

Master’s Degree

Vanderbilt Medical Informatics Rankings

Medical Informatics Student Demographics at Vanderbilt

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

Vanderbilt Medical Informatics Master’s Program

17% Women

33% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 83% of medical informatics master's degrees went to men and 17% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 30% men graduate in medical informatics each year. Vanderbilt does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 53% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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 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
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