Illinois contains 44 schools that offer information assurance programs. Northwestern University, the highest-ranking information assurance school in IL, has a total student population of 19,853 and is the 11th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 44 information assurance schools in Illinois, only 11 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Northwestern University comes out as the most expensive ($28,371/yr), with Illinois Eastern Community Colleges-Frontier Community Coll as the lowest recorded at only $2,315/yr.
Information Assurance students from Illinois 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 Illinois alone, there are 6,880 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $33,960. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $96,210/yr and there are employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in Illinois, the average student population is 3,360 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 7983 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,830 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $7,282, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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