Medical Informatics at Stanford University

If you are interested in studying medical informatics, you may want to check out the program at Stanford University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Stanford is located in Stanford, California and has a total student population of 15,953.

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.

Stanford Medical Informatics Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Stanford

Online courses are a good option for students who need a more flexible schedule that allows them to pursue an education when and where they want. Whether you're going to school part-time or full-time, you may find distance education the right choice for you.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Stanford offers distance education options for medical informatics at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Stanford Medical Informatics Rankings

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

There were 11 students who received their doctoral degrees in medical informatics, making the school the #2 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Medical Informatics Student Demographics at Stanford

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

Stanford Medical Informatics Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 22 medical informatics majors earned their master's degree from Stanford. Of these graduates, 55% were men and 45% were women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 32% men graduate in medical informatics each year. Stanford does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 23% more men than average.

In the medical informatics master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 45% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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 CA, the home state for Stanford University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Software Applications Developers	148,550	$127,950
Computer Workers	74,690	$103,270
Computer and Information Research Scientists	7,300	$136,310

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 Pere Joan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.