Kentucky contains seven schools that offer information assurance programs. Sullivan College of Technology and Design, the highest-ranking information assurance school in KY, has a total student population of 630 and is the 1591st highest ranked school in America.
Of the 7 information assurance schools in Kentucky, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Sullivan College of Technology and Design comes out as the most expensive ($23,638/yr), with Murray State University as the lowest recorded at only $9,764/yr.
Information Assurance students from Kentucky 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 Kentucky alone, there are 2,950 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $31,440. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $74,470/yr and there are employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in Kentucky, the average student population is 2,555 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 2859 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,477 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,117, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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