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Information Assurance Schools in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA (population: 1,445,993) has five information assurance schools within its city limits. Drexel University, the highest ranked school in the city with an information assurance program, has a total student population of 22,493. It is the 108th highest ranked school in the USA and the 8th highest in the state of Pennsylvania (#1 is University of Pennsylvania).

Information Assurance students from Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia Metropolitan area alone, there are 2,310 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average salary of $35,150. Computer and information scientists, research in this area earn $101,960/yr and there are 420 employed.

Philadelphia lies in Philadelphia county, which is one of the 32 counties in Pennsylvania. Overall, the Philadelphia Metropolitan area has 1,832,880 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $23.24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,340 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.227 out of every 1000 jobs in Philadelphia are held by computer and information scientists, research, and 1.260/1000 are held by medical records and health information technicians.

Of the 5 information assurance schools in Philadelphia, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Saint Joseph's University comes out as the most expensive ($34,548/yr) for information assurance students, with Peirce College as the lowest, reported at only $16,641/yr.

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