Louisville, KY (population: 556,482) has six computer information systems schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Eastern Kentucky University, the highest ranked school in this group with a computer information systems program, has a total student population of 16,268. It is the 2402nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 27th highest in the state of Kentucky (#1 is Centre College). To learn more about computer information systems programs in Louisville, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of computer information systems professors at Eastern Kentucky University such as Chris Blades, Virgil Brewer, Mike Hawksley, Chang-Yang Lin, Steve Loy, and Robert Mahaney.
Computer Information Systems students from Louisville schools who go on to become computer information systems specialists, computer support specialists, network engineers, database engineers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 287,210 people working as computer and information systems managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $120,640. Also, Computer support specialists make on average $47,360 per year and there are about 540,560 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area alone, there are 1,890 employed computer support specialists earning an average salary of $43,000. Computer and information systems managers in this area earn $103,750/yr and there are 1,160 employed.
Louisville lies in Jefferson county, which is one of the 55 counties in Kentucky. Overall, the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area has 593,940 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.7% unemployment rate, $19.22/hr average worker wage, and a $39,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.951 out of every 1000 jobs in Louisville are held by computer and information systems managers, and 3.183/1000 are held by computer support specialists.
Of the 6 computer information systems schools with a 100-mile radius of Louisville, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Indiana Business College-Evansville comes out as the most expensive ($16,756/yr) for computer information systems students, with Eastern Kentucky University as the lowest, reported at only $10,033/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Louisville |
| Jeffersonville | IN | - | 3 | 16.878 | 5 | 4.0 miles |
| New Albany | IN | - | 1 | 50.4945 | 53 | 6.4 miles |
| Hanover | IN | - | 1 | 62.3933 | 55 | 37.1 miles |
| Saint Catharine | KY | - | 1 | 13.7868 | 38 | 44.1 miles |
| Frankfort | KY | - | 1 | 45.3097 | 44 | 47.1 miles |
| Lexington | KY | 279,146 | 12 | 25.7509 | 248 | 70.7 miles |
| Florence | KY | - | 8 | 23.3148 | 213 | 80.8 miles |
| Crestview Hills | KY | - | 1 | 24.073 | 65 | 83.8 miles |
| Covington | KY | 43,469 | 3 | 25.6472 | 61 | 87.4 miles |
| Oakland City | IN | - | 1 | 58.4328 | 69 | 87.5 miles |
| Cincinnati | OH | 332,807 | 36 | 23.3732 | 744 | 92.0 miles |
| Bowling Green | KY | 56,941 | 5 | 29.5084 | 365 | 94.6 miles |
| Greenwood | IN | 50,562 | 2 | 33.0452 | 104 | 98.9 miles |
| Evansville | IN | 115,666 | 5 | 36.7615 | 255 | 99.4 miles |
| Somerset | KY | - | 1 | 14.9987 | 47 | 99.8 miles |