Informatics at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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

UL Lafayette is located in Lafayette, Louisiana and approximately 16,450 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 37 students received a bachelor's degree in informatics from UL Lafayette.

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

UL Lafayette Informatics Degrees Available

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

UL Lafayette Informatics Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks informatics programs across the country. The following shows how UL Lafayette performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The informatics major at UL Lafayette 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
Most Focused Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
Most Focused Informatics Schools	11
Best Value Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	13
Most Popular Informatics Schools	14
Best Value Informatics Master’s Degree Schools	19
	19
Best Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	20
	21
Most Popular Informatics Master’s Degree Schools	21
Most Focused Informatics Master’s Degree Schools	21
Best Informatics Master’s Degree Schools	21
Best Value Informatics Schools	33
	38
Best Informatics Schools	40

In 2021, 6 students received their master’s degree in informatics from UL Lafayette. This makes it the #22 most popular school for informatics master’s degree candidates in the country.

Informatics Student Demographics at UL Lafayette

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

UL Lafayette Informatics Bachelor’s Program

Of the 37 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in informatics from UL Lafayette in 2021, 84% were men and 16% were women.

About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in informatics at UL Lafayette are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Louisiana at Lafayette with a bachelor's in informatics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	24
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UL Lafayette Informatics Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students earned a master's degree in informatics from UL Lafayette. About 67% of these graduates were women and the other 33% were men.

Of the students who received a informatics master's degree from UL Lafayette, 67% 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 University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a master's in informatics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	4
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UL Lafayette also has a doctoral program available in informatics. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

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 LA, the home state for University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Occupation	Jobs in LA	Average Salary in LA
Systems Software Developers	1,300	$76,200
Software Applications Developers	1,190	$81,640
Computer and Information Research Scientists	80	$89,810

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 Billy Hathorn under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.