Minnesota contains eighteen schools that offer information assurance programs. Augsburg College, the highest-ranking information assurance school in MN, has a total student population of 4,010 and is the 328th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 18 information assurance schools in Minnesota, only 5 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Academy College comes out as the most expensive ($27,263/yr), with Hibbing Community College-A Technical and Community College as the lowest recorded at only $7,884/yr.
Information Assurance students from Minnesota 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 Minnesota alone, there are 3,690 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $37,630. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $102,180/yr and there are 240 employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in Minnesota, the average student population is 3,459 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 5327 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,013 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $6,006, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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