California contains 33 schools that offer information assurance programs. University of California-Los Angeles, the highest-ranking information assurance school in CA, has a total student population of 38,550 and is the 7th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 33 information assurance schools in California, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Stanbridge College comes out as the most expensive ($84,600/yr), with Golden Gate University-San Francisco as the lowest recorded at only $8,732/yr.
Information Assurance students from California schools who go on to become information assurance specialists, computer security specialists, database administrators, computer and information scientists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 26,130 people working as computer and information scientists, research alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $105,370. Also, Medical records and health information technicians make on average $33,880 per year and there are about 170,580 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the California alone, there are 15,180 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $38,550. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $122,650/yr and there are 4,500 employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in California, the average student population is 4,206 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 18354 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 4,230 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $1,817, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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