San Antonio, TX (population: 1,402,013) has four health information management schools within its city limits. University of the Incarnate Word, the highest ranked school in the city with a health information management program, has a total student population of 6,756. It is the 535th highest ranked school in the USA and the 23rd highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University). To learn more about health information management programs in San Antonio, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of health information management professors at University of the Incarnate Word such as Lou Fox, and Charles Salter.
Health Information Management students from San Antonio schools who go on to become health information managers, medical coders, medical informatics specialists, medical technologists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 271,710 people working as medical and health services managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $90,970. 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. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $84,420/yr and there are 1,660 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 1.980 out of every 1000 jobs in San Antonio are held by medical and health services managers, and 3.011/1000 are held by network and computer systems administrators.
Of the 4 health information management schools in San Antonio, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-San Antonio Campus comes out as the most expensive ($25,174/yr) for health information management students, with Our Lady of the Lake University-San Antonio as the lowest, reported at only $13,591/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 |