Information Technology and Informatics Major

The IT job market demands strong technical skills and insight into the social, economic, and organizational impacts of technology. Successful graduates of the ITI program are ready to identify challenges and propose solutions.

As an ITI major, you’ll develop practical computer-based competencies and unite those skills with ideas from the humanities and social sciences to develop the skills and mindset you need to solve problems where people and machines meet.

The ITI major admits undergraduates after they’ve completed at least 15 credits at Rutgers.

All students in the IT & Informatics major complete the following foundational courses:

• 04:189:103 Introduction to IT and Informatics
• 04:547:200 Social Informatics
• 04:547:201 I.T. Fundamentals
• 04:547:202 Object-Oriented Programming
• 04:547:210 Management of Technological Organizations

ITI majors complete four required courses, seven ITI electives, and a communication or media course—39 credits, total. Add a senior thesis or an experiential-learning course and apply your problem-solving or research skills to a real-world challenge.

The ITI program offers guided pathways to help students explore, choose and build a specific identity often (but not completely) defined in terms of career opportunities. We strongly encourage you to follow a guided pathway, although it is not required.

Each of these guided pathways includes primary electives and secondary electives. Students interested in a pathway should take as many of the primary electives as their schedule allows.

• Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
• Data Management, Analytics, and Information Visualization
• Web Design and Development