Informatics at University of Massachusetts Amherst

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

UMass Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 31,642. Of the 321 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2021, 46 of them were informatics majors.

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

UMass Amherst Informatics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics

UMass Amherst Informatics Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the informatics progam at UMass Amherst compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The informatics major at UMass Amherst 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
	6
Most Popular Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Popular Informatics Schools	13
	14
Most Focused Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	15
Best Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	17
Best Value Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	22
Most Focused Informatics Schools	26
Best Informatics Schools	33
Best Value Informatics Schools	40

Informatics Student Demographics at UMass Amherst

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

UMass Amherst Informatics Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 46 informatics majors earned their bachelor's degree from UMass Amherst. Of these graduates, 72% were men and 28% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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 Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor's in informatics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	17
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UMass Amherst 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 MA, the home state for University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Software Applications Developers	29,110	$109,130
Systems Software Developers	25,540	$117,760
Computer and Information Research Scientists	720	$116,920

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 Lion Hirth under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.