UW News
Scott Barker
March 3, 2016
Record percentage of women students in Informatics Program helps iSchool narrow the gender gap
![Christina Xiao, left, and Amber Amin graduated in June 2015 with degrees in informatics from the UW Information School. This year's cohort in Informatics is the largest yet, a record 40 percent of them women.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/03/04155612/Christina-and-Amber-quad-banner_CROPPED-150x150.jpg)
The UW Information School’s 2015-16 undergraduate cohort in informatics is not only the school’s largest yet with 210 students, it also includes more women students than ever before — about 40 percent.