What You Can Do with an Informatics Degree
Business runs on technology and data. Skilled informatics professionals are in demand because they help manage the systems that collect, study, and use data to guide business decisions.
Regardless of your background, if you’re looking to apply your expertise in new and exciting ways, informatics could be a perfect fit.
What is Informatics?
Informatics bridges technology and business.
As an informatics student, you'll learn to use modern tools and build management skills for high-paying jobs in many fields.
"Informatics is an area of computing that focuses on human needs by way of technology applications,” says Dr. Michael Totaro, Informatics Program Coordinator. “If you're interested in technology, computing, data, and how those come together for specific purposes, informatics is worth looking at.”
Dr. Totaro is a professor in the School of Computing and Informatics, and program coordinator for the M.S. in Informatics degree program.
What Can I Do with an Informatics Degree?
For people with an unrelated degree, UL Lafayette’s master’s in informatics can open new doors in data science and informatics degree jobs.
“Students can merge the area of expertise they already have with the expertise they will develop in informatics,” says Dr. Totaro.
“Because informatics is so cross disciplinary, that's actually a good situation to be in. Everything that you've learned, everything that you've done, can be useful to you.”
The Master of Science in Informatics builds on any bachelor's degree. You can take courses based on your interests in business, media tech, systems admin, web development, and network security.
You'll be ready for data science work in many fields. You can use your skills in app development, business process analysis, database or network security admin, and more.
Who’s Hiring Informatics Professionals?
The short answer? Everyone.
Informatics, computing, and data science are among the fastest-growing fields in the country, with openings in every industry. These informatics jobs include business intelligence architect jobs and other roles in tech and data.
M.S. in Informatics alum Jason Suire earned his bachelor's in English before moving into tech.
Now, as a security architect for consulting firm CGI, he appreciates how informatics fits many fields.
“Even if you go into, say, political science, the statistical and procedural background is extraordinarily helpful in setting up strategies,” he says.
“Operational sciences and research are good in any practice because it helps you break down the inner workings of a business.”
Career Opportunities in Informatics: 
- Application development. Turn software needs into working code and maintain programs for business use.
- Business intelligence architecture. Build rules that guide the creation, growth, and change of the IT system landscape.
- Business process analysis. Support business process work by finding root causes, mapping current systems, and spotting ways to improve.
- Database development and admin. Plan and manage database speed, integrity, and security, and solve user issues.
- IT support. Handle troubleshooting, software maintenance, testing, network work, load balancing, scaling, vendor management, and more.
- IT business management. Link a firm's technology tools to its business goals.
- IT project management. Plan, budget, lead, and document projects while keeping each one on schedule.
- Network security admin. Teach users about computer security, check for security problems, install protective software, and respond to cyberattacks.
- Web development. Create the look, layout, and features of a website.
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