Medical Illustration & Informatics
Contains Stem Majors
Add ComparisonIn 2021, the locations with the highest concentration of Medical Illustration & Informatics degree recipients are Minneapolis, MN, Tampa, FL, and Philadelphia, PA. In 2021, the locations with a relatively high number of Medical Illustration & Informatics degree recipients are Findlay, OH, Valley Falls, SC, and Garden City, NY. The most common degree awarded to students studying Medical Illustration & Informatics is a masters degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Medical Illustration & Informatics and the types of students that study this field. Capella University awards the most degrees in Medical Illustration & Informatics in the US, but Cleveland Institute of Art and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Medical Illustration & Informatics.
Tuition costs for Medical Illustration & Informatics majors are, on average, $8,268 for in-state public colleges, and $41,111 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Medical Illustration & Informatics programs are Public, 4-year or above institutions (75 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (1,155 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Medical Illustration & Informatics, is Public, 4-year or above (1,155 completions in 2021).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Medical Illustration & Informatics programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Capella University has the most Medical Illustration & Informatics degree recipients, with 206 degrees awarded in 2021.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Medical Illustration & Informatics.
Out of all institutions that offer Medical Illustration & Informatics programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Cleveland Institute of Art has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Medical Illustration & Informatics, with 5.76%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Medical Illustration & Informatics by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Medical Illustration & Informatics.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Health graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Health majors is $81,847 and the most common occupations are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
The industry that employs the most Health majors is General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers.
The average salary for Health majors is $81,847 and the most common occupations are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Health majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Health majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Health majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Health majors, by number of employees, are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Health majors working as Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives, Nurse anesthetists, and Audiologists.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Health majors are Surgeons, Physicians, and Chief executives & legislators.
The number of Health graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.68%, from 4.3M in 2020 to 4.46M in 2021.
The largest single share of Health graduates go on to work as Registered nurses (36.7%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Health by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Health majors, by number of employees, are General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, Outpatient care centers, and Elementary & secondary schools.
The highest paying industries of Health majors, by average wage, are Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers, Farm supplies merchant wholesalers, and Pharmaceutical & medicine manufacturing.
The number of Health graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.68%, from 4.3M in 2020 to 4.46M in 2021.
The industry which employs the most Health graduates by share is General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, followed by Outpatient care centers. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Health.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Health majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Health majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Health. The most common ages of employees with this major are 30 and 31 years old, which represent 2.98% and 2.93% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Medical Illustration & Informatics are Masters Degree, Bachelors Degree, and Postbaccalaureate Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Health are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Medical Illustration & Informatics.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Medical Illustration & Informatics for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Masters Degree recipients in Medical Illustration & Informatics.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Philippines that hold Health degrees (5.11 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Philippines (199,567 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Medical Illustration & Informatics field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Medical Illustration & Informatics majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Medical Illustration & Informatics majors need more than the average amount of Programming, Installation, Technology Design, Science, Equipment Selection, Operations Analysis, Mathematics, Systems Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Complex Problem Solving, Active Learning, Systems Evaluation, Critical Thinking, Instructing, Learning Strategies, Writing, Service Orientation, Management of Personnel Resources, Coordination, Active Listening, Speaking, Judgment and Decision Making, Monitoring, Time Management, Management of Material Resources, Persuasion, Management of Financial Resources, Operation Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Negotiation, Equipment Maintenance, Repairing, Operation and Control, Quality Control Analysis, and Troubleshooting.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Medical Illustration & Informatics majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Programming is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Writing, Speaking, Complex Problem Solving, Active Learning, Mathematics, Judgment and Decision Making, Science, Systems Analysis, Coordination, Monitoring, Instructing, Systems Evaluation, Learning Strategies, Operations Analysis, Service Orientation, Time Management, Programming, Social Perceptiveness, Management of Personnel Resources, Persuasion, Negotiation, Technology Design, Operation Monitoring, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Equipment Selection, Operation and Control, Troubleshooting, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.
