Who are the iSchools?
Indiana University School of Informatics
The Indiana University School of Informatics, the first of its kind in the country, was created as a place where innovative multidisciplinary programs could thrive within a school where information technology is applied to a range of other fields.
The School offers Masters and Ph.D. programs in Informatics on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses, and undergraduate degrees at regional campuses throughout the state. The B.S. degree is inherently multidisciplinary, so as to give educate students in an application/subject area partnered with another academic unit (“cognate”), as well as in the core areas of information technology. Graduate degree programs are offered in bioinformatics, chemical informatics, human-computer interaction design, music informatics, laboratory informatics, health informatics, media arts and science, and cybersecurity.
On the Bloomington campus the Department of Computer Science is part of the School of Informatics, and offers bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees.
The School recently expanded its faculty to about 120 researchers (68 in Bloomington, 46 in Indianapolis) in a wide range of disciplines. Research in Informatics often involves several different areas working together to develop innovative and even revolutionary new solutions. While students can expect to concentrate in particular areas, they will also be expected to explore the broader significance of their work as well as ways that their expertise can be leveraged to solve problems outside of their own domains. The following lists the main research areas in the School of Informatics; the existing and potential combinations of these domains are too numerous to list.