If you plan on majoring in informatics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #246 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of informatics. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 312 degrees in informatics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The informatics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Informatics rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for informatics schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Informatics Schools in California list, to help you choose the best school for you.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the informatics degree levels they offer.
It is difficult to beat University of Southern California if you wish to pursue a degree in informatics. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #11 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were roughly 163 informatics students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent year we have data available.
University of California - Irvine is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in informatics. UC Irvine is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Irvine. This university ranks 15th out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 133 informatics students who graduated with this degree at UC Irvine in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat San Jose State University if you wish to pursue a degree in informatics. San Jose State is a fairly large public university located in the large city of San Jose. This university ranks 23rd out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 16 informatics students who graduated with this degree at San Jose State in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).