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Track Options
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Credit Hour Minor
Degree
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Department
The Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics offers three tracks:
Students take 30 credit hours of core Bioinformatics classes, which includes internship or research and a Bioinformatics Capstone course.
Classes include:
- Big Data Concepts
- Algorithms for Computational Biology
- Bioinformatics Programming with R
The Bioinformatics program at St. Mary’s gives students the knowledge and tools to pursue graduate school, medical school or enter into a number of careers, depending on the track they choose.
Career possibilities include:
- Bioinformatician – entry level
- Bioinformatics Data Analyst, Programmer or Specialist
- Biostatistician Assistant
- Biostatistical Consultant
- Clinical Data Analyst/Reporter
- Data Scientist – entry level
- Informatics Analyst
- Research Associate
- Solutions/Software Engineer – entry level
- Technician
