The in-person Health Informatics Masters Degree program provides a comprehensive curriculum to prepare students for careers in research, teaching and information management in the healthcare computing industry, within healthcare organizations, and academia. The program offers advanced training in biomedical and health informatics aligned with the current skills, environments and health needs of the local and national community, for students to develop as independent and applied professionals for broad future careers.

The Masters degree requirements include an in-person core intensive curriculum and a mandatory research project and thesis, with a goal of producing work that may be published in peer-reviewed journals. Possibilities for projects foci include research in areas such digital and consumer health, clinical decision support and data sciences in health, systems architecture in clinical health IT, patient privacy and security and data standardization, sharing and connectivity.

Degree Requirements

M.S. Plan I and Plan II

The Health Informatics program offers both Plan I and Plan II for the M.S. degree with respective thesis or capstone requirements. Students will decide, in consultation with graduate group faculty, which option best suits their individual goals by the end of the third quarter of enrollment.

Plan I: Thesis

The Plan I requirement can be fulfilled by a written thesis paper and oral defense. This plan requires a minimum of 48 units of graduate 200-level or undergraduate upper division 100-level coursework, which is comprised of:

• at least 19 units from within the core program curriculum
• 12 units of MHI 299 Research Units

Plan II: Capstone

The Plan II requirement can be fulfilled by a written capstone report of a supervised project. This plan requires a minimum of 48 units of graduate 200-level or undergraduate upper division 100-level coursework, which is comprised of:

• at least 16 units from within the core program curriculum
• 9 units of MHI 299 Research Units