Wisconsin contains nine schools that offer information assurance programs. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the highest-ranking information assurance school in WI, has a total student population of 30,418 and is the 1867th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 9 information assurance schools in Wisconsin, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, ITT Technical Institute–Madison comes out as the most expensive ($22,571/yr), with Milwaukee Area Technical College as the lowest recorded at only $6,574/yr.
Information Assurance students from Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin alone, there are 3,830 employed medical records and health information technicians earning an average yearly salary of $35,300. Computer and information scientists, research in this state earn $123,320/yr and there are 90 employed.
Also, within the information assurance schools in Wisconsin, the average student population is 3,620 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 15 to 1. Aside from information assurance, there are 4047 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,987 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,857, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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