Medical Informatics at Samford University

What traits are you looking for in a medical informatics school? To help you decide if Samford University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's medical informatics program.

Samford is located in Birmingham, Alabama and has a total student population of 5,729.

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

Samford Medical Informatics Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Medical Informatics
• Doctorate Degree in Medical Informatics

Online Classes Are Available at Samford

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Samford does offer online education options in medical informatics for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Master’s Degree

Samford Medical Informatics Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

There were 2 students who received their doctoral degrees in medical informatics, making the school the #9 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Medical Informatics Student Demographics at Samford

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

Samford Medical Informatics Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 4 medical informatics majors earned their master's degree from Samford. Of these graduates, 75% were men and 25% were women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 32% men graduate in medical informatics each year. Samford does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 43% more men than average.

In the medical informatics master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 75% of degree recipients. That is 34% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Samford University with a master's in medical informatics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

Careers That Medical Informatics Grads May Go Into

A degree in medical 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 AL, the home state for Samford University.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Software Applications Developers	6,210	$96,400
Computer Workers	1,920	$87,060

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 Sweetmoose6 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.