Michigan contains 30 schools that offer information assurance programs. Grand Valley State University, the highest-ranking information assurance school in MI, has a total student population of 24,408 and is the 159th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 30 information assurance schools in Michigan, only 10 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Metro Detroit Campus comes out as the most expensive ($26,398/yr), with Alpena Community College as the lowest recorded at only $1,805/yr.
Information Assurance students from Michigan 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 Michigan alone, there are 4,970 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $34,290. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $93,000/yr and there are 200 employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in Michigan, the average student population is 3,208 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 6233 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,809 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $5,088, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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