Pennsylvania contains 62 schools that offer information assurance programs. Carnegie Mellon University, the highest-ranking information assurance school in PA, has a total student population of 11,197 and is the 44th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 62 information assurance schools in Pennsylvania, only 5 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, YTI Career Institute comes out as the most expensive ($41,895/yr), with Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Abington as the lowest recorded at only $10,577/yr.
Information Assurance students from Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania alone, there are 8,070 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $32,150. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $86,180/yr and there are 1,100 employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in Pennsylvania, the average student population is 2,077 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 15 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 10679 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,747 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $9,718, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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