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Career Opportunities
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this program, students majoring in Informatics at all campuses will be required to take a set of core courses in Informatics, and then proceed to choose a cognate discipline such as the arts, cognitive science, biology, physics, applied computing or decision sciences.
Each student’s degree program is strongly flavored by the associated “cognate,” or area of specialty. Thus a graduate with a cognate in chemistry might work in a chemical or pharmaceutical firm. A cognate in geography naturally leads to a career relating to geographic information systems (GIS).
The synergy achieved by combining the study of information science with other application areas creates an exciting academic program well suited for the careers that have emerged from our growing information society. The table below demonstrates some potential employment opportunities for graduates of this program.
Cognate Discipline |
Career Options |
|---|---|
Biology |
Bio-informatics |
Business and Economics Decision Sciences |
Technical management Logistics |
Chemistry |
Computational chemistry Chemical database manager Genome database manager |
Cognitive Science Philosophy Psychology |
User-interface designer Usability tester Survey Research and Design Human Computer Interaction Specialist |
English |
Technical writing |
Fine Arts/Integrated Media |
Graphic design Web page design Video game design |
Education |
Information Technology Teachers |
Health Sciences |
Medical Informatics Nursing Informatics |
Mathematics |
Computational Analysis Analytical Analysis Mathematical Modeling |
Music |
Digital Audio Specialist |
Physics |
Computational Physicist Data analyst Data mining analyst |
Sociology |
Survey Research and Design Social Informatics |
In addition to the above careers, an Informatics graduate also might be suited for general information technology jobs, such as:
- Systems analysts
- Information technology managers
- Web designers
- Database managers
- Interface designers and evaluators
- Network managers
- Information technology consultants Information architects/digital designers
