MS in Bioinformatics—IS Concentration

The explosion of health, medical, and biological information has created a critical demand for professionals who can turn such data into useful knowledge. When you earn the MS in Bioinformatics with our Information Sciences (IS) Concentration, you'll be ideal for a promising career in managing information produced in a range of biomedicine settings and creating health care systems that connect the available data and analytics to improve medicine and public health.

As a professional school specializing in the information sciences, the ischool is one of four campus units to offer the MS in Bioinformatics. This cutting-edge degree allows you to take interdisciplinary courses across campus and prepare you for work as an analyst or researcher in various specialties, including molecular biology, environmental biology, and biomedicine.

The iSchool at Illinois leads the way in shaping the future of information. This success results from a commitment to research, education, engagement, and a long history of innovation. Our School consistently earns recognition as one of the best destinations on-campus and online for professional studies in the information sciences.

Our programs and research address contemporary information issues in data science, human-computer interaction, digital libraries, privacy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, bio- and health-informatics, information literacy, cultural analytics, youth literature and services, and more.