San Antonio, TX (population: 1,402,013) has three cisco schools within its city limits. St Marys University, the highest ranked school in the city with a cisco program, has a total student population of 3,893. It is the 405th highest ranked school in the USA and the 12th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Cisco students from San Antonio schools who go on to become cisco specialists, cisco technology specialists, cisco certified professionals, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 226,080 people working as network systems and data communications analysts alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $76,560. Also, Network and computer systems administrators make on average $70,930 per year and there are about 338,890 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the San Antonio area alone, there are 2,520 employed network and computer systems administrators earning an average salary of $59,410. Network systems and data communications analysts in this area earn $68,670/yr and there are 890 employed.
San Antonio lies in Bexar county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the San Antonio area has 837,030 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $18.25/hr average worker wage, and a $37,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.060 out of every 1000 jobs in San Antonio are held by network systems and data communications analysts, and 3.011/1000 are held by network and computer systems administrators.
Of the 3 cisco schools in San Antonio, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, St Marys University comes out as the most expensive ($15,281/yr) for cisco students, with San Antonio College as the lowest, reported at only $3,422/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from San Antonio |
| Seguin | TX | - | 2 | 43.9208 | 52 | 33.7 miles |
| Kerrville | TX | - | 2 | 41.881 | 56 | 55.5 miles |
| Austin | TX | 792,778 | 27 | 18.4164 | 459 | 74.4 miles |
| Cedar Park | TX | 72,258 | 0 | - | 0 | 83.3 miles |
| Pflugerville | TX | 43,849 | 1 | 21.9644 | 4 | 86.3 miles |
| Georgetown | TX | 55,998 | 3 | 24.3873 | 208 | 95.8 miles |