Do You Dig Big Data and Digital Media?
The frontier of careers involved with managing data and creating mobile applications continues to expand. You can ride the new waves of analytics and digital media by writing your own job description when you complete the online or on campus informatics program at Fort Hays State University. For a career specialty that did not really exist several years ago, there is now an unlimited scope of jobs that are ranked as the best careers to pursue across the nation – and we’ll help you get there.
When you study informatics at FHSU, your success path is built upon:
- Innovative, in-depth classes online and on campus; our students work with state-of-the-art software and equipment
- Small classes taught by knowledgeable experts
- Internship possibilities
- Advanced Technology lab spaces
- Tiger Media Network (TMN), the University's official converged media outlet for student-created media content
- Information Enterprise Institute – the home of the National Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education here at FHSU
- Institute for New Media Studies – laboratory and collaboration space dedicated to the transdisciplinary study of new media as it impacts human communication
- Advanced Technology Student Organization (ATSO)
With hands-on experience and industry relationships, our graduates are prepared for success and have found career opportunities at the NSA, FBI, Google, Cargill, Sprint, Zappos, Cerner, and Merck. Fort Hays State students who have emphasized media in their education have gone on to work with transformative companies including HGTV, FOX, NBC Universal, Time Warner Cable, and KWCH, while our entrepreneurial students have successfully marketed commercial apps to companies such as eBay or have started their own technology or website business, like majorspoilers.com.
