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Virginia Commonwealth University
Christopher Newport University
ITT Technical Institute-Springfield
ITT Technical Institute-Chantilly
ITT Technical Institute-Richmond
ITT Technical Institute-Norfolk
Averett University-Non-traditional programs
University of Phoenix-Northern Virginia Campus
Westwood College-Annandale
Westwood College-Arlington Ballston
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Information Assurance Schools in Virginia
Virginia contains 23 schools that offer information assurance programs. James Madison University, the highest-ranking information assurance school in VA, has a total student population of 18,971 and is the 72nd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 23 information assurance schools in Virginia, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Sanford-Brown College comes out as the most expensive ($49,321/yr), with Radford University as the lowest recorded at only $8,996/yr.
Information Assurance students from Virginia 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 Virginia alone, there are 3,500 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $34,540. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $99,070/yr and there are 3,580 employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in Virginia, the average student population is 3,287 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 3782 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,568 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,181, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
Virginia Interesting Facts
- Virginia was named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I.
- The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry.
- Jamestown, the first of the original 13 Colonies was founded for the purpose of silk cultivation. Silk to be traded with the Court of King James. After blight fungus destroyed the mulberry trees (silkworm food), sericulturist planted tobacco as a cash crop.
- Jamestown was the first English settlement in the U.S. It was also the first capital of Virginia.
- Virginia is known as "the birthplace of a nation".
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