Oregon contains five schools that offer information assurance programs. ITT Technical Institute-Portland, the highest-ranking information assurance school in OR, has a total student population of 816 and is the 2441st highest ranked school in America.
Of the 5 information assurance schools in Oregon, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, ITT Technical Institute-Portland comes out as the most expensive ($22,549/yr), with Lane Community College as the lowest recorded at only $6,953/yr.
Information Assurance students from Oregon 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 Oregon alone, there are 2,770 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $34,970. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $103,330/yr and there are 130 employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in Oregon, the average student population is 2,645 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 2428 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,810 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,147, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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