At the undergraduate level, a student interested in data and search can obtain a Specialization in Data and Search in the Computer Science Bachelor of Science degree. The degree will position the student to be skilled to deal with the deluge of data facing society and the opportunity it creates for new solutions to pressing societal problems in energy, health care, and the economy. The data specialist has strong technical skills in the methodology behind databases, search engines, and distributed repositories, and can create new technical solutions. The data specialist is well positioned to become a skilled knowledge worker able to design and build future solutions for Internet search companies, and companies that mine data, or that manage data to create new products such as at pharmaceutical companies.

At the graduate level a number of courses are offered that are open to graduate students in either the Informatics Program or the Computer Science Program.