Texas contains 47 schools that offer information assurance programs. The University of Texas at Dallas, the highest-ranking information assurance school in TX, has a total student population of 15,783 and is the 153rd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 47 information assurance schools in Texas, only 17 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Baylor University comes out as the most expensive ($26,444/yr), with The University of Texas-Pan American as the lowest recorded at only $1,646/yr.
Information Assurance students from Texas 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 Texas alone, there are 13,400 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $32,150. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $114,870/yr and there are 1,480 employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in Texas, the average student population is 3,703 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 11086 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,493 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,572, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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