Baltimore, MD (population: 632,410) has two health informatics schools within its city limits. Coppin State University, the highest ranked school in the city with a health informatics program, has a total student population of 3,801. It is the 4644th highest ranked school in the USA and the 59th highest in the state of Maryland (#1 is Johns Hopkins University).
Health Informatics students from Baltimore schools who go on to become health informatics professionals, database administrators, health informatics specialists, health information specialists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 170,580 people working as medical records and health information technicians alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $33,880. Also, Database administrators make on average $74,290 per year and there are about 108,080 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Baltimore-Towson area alone, there are 1,740 employed database administrators earning an average salary of $85,340. Medical records and health information technicians in this area earn $39,360/yr and there are 1,450 employed.
Baltimore lies in Baltimore county, which is one of the 16 counties in Maryland. Overall, the Baltimore-Towson area has 1,259,140 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.2% unemployment rate, $23.40/hr average worker wage, and a $48,670 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.151 out of every 1000 jobs in Baltimore are held by medical records and health information technicians, and 1.383/1000 are held by database administrators.
Of the 2 health informatics schools in Baltimore, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Coppin State University comes out as the most expensive ($7,145/yr) for health informatics students, with The Community College of Baltimore County as the lowest, reported at only $5,035/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Baltimore |
Dundalk | MD | 66,755 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.2 miles |
Towson | MD | 55,491 | 3 | 39.9767 | 128 | 6.9 miles |
Linthicum | MD | - | 1 | 23.7302 | 4 | 7.0 miles |
Catonsville | MD | 43,590 | 0 | - | 0 | 7.5 miles |
Severn | MD | 47,939 | 0 | - | 0 | 11.9 miles |
Ellicott City | MD | 73,232 | 0 | - | 0 | 12.0 miles |
Owings Mills | MD | - | 2 | 12.2029 | 18 | 12.3 miles |
Arnold | MD | - | 2 | 15.7612 | 101 | 19.4 miles |
Annapolis | MD | - | 2 | 37.2711 | 28 | 23.1 miles |
Bowie | MD | 52,071 | 1 | 51.6519 | 53 | 24.5 miles |
Lanham | MD | - | 1 | 24.0199 | 10 | 26.7 miles |
Olney | MD | 41,213 | 1 | 14.4703 | 35 | 27.2 miles |
Adelphi | MD | - | 1 | 12.6602 | 95 | 28.3 miles |
Aspen Hill | MD | 53,748 | 0 | - | 0 | 29.1 miles |
Takoma Park | MD | - | 1 | 13.9013 | 66 | 30.8 miles |
Montgomery Village | MD | 43,313 | 0 | - | 0 | 32.2 miles |
Rockville | MD | 63,567 | 2 | 20.9627 | 85 | 32.7 miles |
North Bethesda | MD | 48,357 | 0 | - | 0 | 32.7 miles |
Capitol Heights | MD | - | 1 | 32.1418 | 6 | 33.1 miles |
Gaithersburg | MD | 59,755 | 2 | 35.5602 | 8 | 34.5 miles |
Bethesda | MD | 59,221 | 1 | 7.29955 | 10 | 34.8 miles |
Germantown | MD | 71,619 | 0 | - | 0 | 35.8 miles |
Potomac | MD | 42,836 | 0 | - | 0 | 36.7 miles |
McLean | VA | - | 1 | 24.682 | 8 | 39.6 miles |
North East | MD | - | 1 | 7.7142 | 47 | 41.3 miles |
Falls Church | VA | - | 1 | 13.4471 | 18 | 41.7 miles |
Alexandria | VA | 147,786 | 6 | 19.205 | 130 | 42.0 miles |
Frederick | MD | 59,727 | 2 | 38.8415 | 121 | 44.2 miles |
Annandale | VA | 60,438 | 3 | 18.9314 | 107 | 45.8 miles |
York | PA | - | 10 | 26.4605 | 240 | 46.3 miles |