Medical Informatics at Temple University

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

Temple is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 37,236. In 2021, 32 medical informatics majors received their bachelor's degree from Temple.

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.

Temple Medical Informatics Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Temple

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.

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

• Master’s Degree

Temple Medical Informatics Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the medical informatics progam at Temple compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The medical informatics major at Temple is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Medical Informatics. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	3
Most Focused Medical Informatics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	10
Most Popular Medical Informatics Master’s Degree Schools	22
Best Value Medical Informatics Graduate Certificate Schools	23
Best Medical Informatics Schools	40
Best Value Medical Informatics Schools	57

In 2021, 22 students received their master’s degree in medical informatics from Temple. This makes it the #22 most popular school for medical informatics master’s degree candidates in the country.

Medical Informatics Student Demographics at Temple

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

Temple Medical Informatics Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 32 students earned a bachelor's degree in medical informatics from Temple. About 88% of these graduates were women and the other 13% were men.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 18% more racial-ethnic minorities in its medical informatics bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Temple Medical Informatics Master’s Program

The medical informatics program at Temple awarded 22 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 36% of these degrees went to men with the other 64% going to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 32% men graduate in medical informatics each year. Temple does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 4% 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 Temple University with a master's in medical informatics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	9
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Temple also has a doctoral program available in medical informatics. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 PA, the home state for Temple University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Software Applications Developers	28,260	$96,370
Computer Workers	19,010	$87,040
Computer and Information Research Scientists	410	$107,660

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 Audrey under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.