Informatics Educational Institutions & Programs

University at Buffalo

Type	Public
Established	1846 (1846)
President	Satish K. Tripathi
Provost	Charles F. Zukoski
Location	Buffalo, New York, United States
Campus	Suburban
Colors	Blue and white
Nickname	Bulls
Website	buffalo.edu
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/edu/school?id=19028

University at Buffalo (formally State University of New York at Buffalo) is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States. It is commonly referred to as SUNY Buffalo, and it was formerly known as the University of Buffalo. The university was founded in 1846 as a private college, but in 1962 merged with the State University of New York (SUNY) system. In addition to the College of Arts and Sciences, the university houses the largest state-operated medical school, dental school, education school, business school, engineering school, and also features the only state law school, architecture and urban planning school, and pharmacy school in the state of New York. The university is classified as a research university with very high research activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.^[1] The university enrolled nearly 30,000 students, and it ranked 99 among national universities and 43 among "Top Public Schools" according to U.S. News & World Report's 2016 rankings.^[2]

Informatics programs

Bioinformatics

The following bioinformatics-related options exist for potential students:

M.S. in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics

30 credit hours, completed in roughly two years

Available online? No

Program URL: http://medicine.buffalo.edu/education/ggb/programs/masters.html

Ph.D. in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics

72 credit hours

Available online? No

Program URL: http://medicine.buffalo.edu/education/ggb/programs/phd.html

Health and clinical informatics

The following health/clinical informatics options exist for potential students:

M.S. in Biomedical Informatics, with five different concentrations also available

36 credit hours, completed in roughly two years; credit hours may be slightly different with the concentrations; available concentrations: Bioinformatics, Biomedical Ontology, Clinical Informatics, Public Health Informatics, Sociotechnical and Human-Centered Design

Available online? No

Program URL: http://medicine.buffalo.edu/departments/biomedical-informatics/education/masters.html

Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics, with five different concentrations also available

72 credit hours; credit hours may be slightly different with the concentrations; available concentrations: Bioinformatics, Biomedical Ontology, Clinical Informatics, Public Health Informatics, Sociotechnical and Human-Centered Design

Available online? No

Program URL: http://medicine.buffalo.edu/departments/biomedical-informatics/education/phd.html

Fellowship Program in Clinical Informatics

Two-year fellowship

Available online? No

Program URL: http://medicine.buffalo.edu/departments/biomedical-informatics/education/clinical-informatics.html

Postdoctoral Training in Biomedical Informatics

See program URL for details.

Available online? No

Program URL: http://medicine.buffalo.edu/departments/biomedical-informatics/education/postdoc.html

Additional external links

• Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

References