Health Information Management at Northwestern University

If you plan to study health information management, take a look at what Northwestern University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Northwestern is located in Evanston, Illinois and has a total student population of 22,603.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Health Information Management section at the bottom of this page.

Northwestern Health Information Management Degrees Available

Master’s Degree in Health Information

Online Classes Are Available at Northwestern

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Northwestern offers distance education options for health information at the following degree levels:

Master’s Degree

Northwestern Health Information Management Rankings

Health Information Student Demographics at Northwestern

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health information majors at Northwestern University.

Northwestern Health Information Management Master’s Program

53% Women

59% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 47% of health information master's degrees went to men and 53% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 15% men graduate in health information each year. Northwestern does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 33% more men than average.

In the health information master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 59% of degree recipients. That is 13% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northwestern University with a master's in health information.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	6
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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Careers That Health Information Grads May Go Into

A degree in health information can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Northwestern University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Medical and Health Services Managers	14,050	$121,900

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

College Factual
National Center for Education Statistics
O*NET Online
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