To serve the needs of the large population of pharmaceutical professionals in the greater New York metropolitan area, Fairleigh Dickinson University's School of Natural Sciences offers a Master of Science in Chemistry with a concentration in Informatics. This concentration is an interdisciplinary program including training in not only chemistry and biology but also applied statistics and computer science, students will complete graduate coursework in Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics. Graduates of this concentration will be able to use information technology to improve productivity and success rates in pharmaceutical research. They will develop and evaluate new chemical research strategies by analyzing, or mining, large amounts of data available in drug discovery, public health, clinical research, and genomics databases. Since informatics is a rapidly evolving field there are career opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry as well as in academic research.To accommodate part-time students, already working in the industry, classes are offered on an evening schedule. The minimum time required to complete this program is 2 years (4 semesters).