Hawaii contains two schools that offer information assurance programs. Hawaii Pacific University, the highest-ranking information assurance school in HI, has a total student population of 8,113 and is the 589th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 2 information assurance schools in Hawaii, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Hawaii Pacific University comes out as the most expensive ($15,952/yr), with Brigham Young University-Hawaii as the lowest recorded at only $10,847/yr.
Information Assurance students from Hawaii 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 Hawaii alone, there are 650 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $41,340. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $96,090/yr and there are 60 employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in Hawaii, the average student population is 3,134 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 704 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,845 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,000, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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