Facts & Statistics

Bloomington Profile*

* Programs also available at Indianapolis

Informatics Majors (B.S.)	276 students
Computer Science (B.S. and B.A.*)	119 students
Women	15.37%
International Students	8%
Average Starting Salary (Undergraduate)	$53,850

* BA in Computer Science administered by the College of Arts and Sciences

Accomplishments

Over 1853 graduates from Informatics degree programs (IU Bloomington and IUPUI Indianapolis) since 2000
IUPUI Informatics Complex now providing state-of-the-art classroom and research space
Informatics growing at South Bend and planned for other IU campuses
Nation’s first Ph.D. in Informatics now available
MS in Human-Computer Interaction—Cybersecurity coming soon
Department of Computer Science in Bloomington joined School of Informatics July 1, 2005

Innovative Research

Informatics faculty members are involved in research on diverse projects, including:

data mining
social informatics
bioinformatics
medical visualization
pervasive technologies research
community grids labs
visualization of scientific data
multilingualism on the Internet
cybersecurity
artificial intelligence
life sciences

The Informatics Research Institute has two major projects:

NSF sponsored Distributed Molecular Database, making available a collection of 3D molecular structures with graphical tools accessible by the Internet
IMLS sponsored Cultural Library Indexing Our Heritage (CLIOH), bringing Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Angel Mounds, and other threatened archaeological sites “back to life” in virtual reality

Reversing the Brain Drain

The School of Informatics is committed to economic development in Indiana. The School encourages students to take internships in Indiana and to remain employed in Indiana.

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