Informatics at Pennsylvania State University - World Campus

If you are interested in studying informatics, you may want to check out the program at Pennsylvania State University - World Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

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

Penn State World Campus Informatics Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Informatics

Online Classes Are Available at Penn State World Campus

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? Penn State World Campus offers distance education options for informatics at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Penn State World Campus Informatics Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Informatics Student Demographics at Penn State World Campus

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the informatics majors at Pennsylvania State University - World Campus.

Penn State World Campus Informatics Master’s Program

Of the 74 students who earned a master's degree in Informatics from Penn State World Campus in 2018-2019, 91% were men and 9% were women.

Of the students who received a informatics master's degree from Penn State World Campus, 69% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the informatics master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 31% of degree recipients. That is 1% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Pennsylvania State University - World Campus with a master's in informatics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	51
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Related Majors

• Information Technology
• General Computer & Information Sciences

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 PA, the home state for Pennsylvania State University - World Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Software Applications Developers	28,260	$96,370
Systems Software Developers	8,810	$103,520
Computer and Information Research Scientists	410	$107,660

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.