Cornell University

Academics

Please see our Courses page for a listing of current InfoSci courses or the Cornell Courses of Study for a complete list of course offerings across departments.

Career Services resources are available for all Cornell students. InfoSci undergraduate students should visit their college's Career Services office. MPS students should contact Mary Ellen Buhl. 

Our programs in Information Science provide students with the skills to examine the contexts in which information systems are employed to inform design and understand impact using multiple methodologies and an interdisciplinary approach.

The department offers three undergraduate degrees in Information Science, through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the the College of Engineering.

The Information Science department at Cornell offers two graduate programs, an MPS and a PhD program, offering students two different tracks for deeper study. The Masters in Professional Studies program is a one-year program that prepares students for work in industry while the PhD program... more

Areas of Study

Our degree programs are broken down into areas of study that allow students to focus their research and courses on particular areas of interest.

Studying psychology, sociology and communication gives Information Science students tools...

From conception through development, our Design concentration encompasses web, software and...

Formal analysis of social systems courses allow students to apply social science research...

Human–computer Interaction (HCI) involves the study, planning, and design of the...

The proliferation of new technologies in recent years has resulted in new laws, rules and...

The goal of the Natural language processing (NLP) group is to develop algorithms and...

From developing databases to programming websites, working with data is an essential aspect...

Degrees

Information Science offers three undergraduate degree programs and two graduate: our one-year MPS program and the PhD program.