Health Information Management at University of Illinois at Chicago

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

UIC is located in Chicago, Illinois and approximately 33,518 students attend the school each year.

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.

UIC Health Information Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health Information
• Master’s Degree in Health Information

Online Classes Are Available at UIC

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.

UIC does offer online education options in health information for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Master’s Degree

UIC Health Information Management Rankings

The health information major at UIC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Health Information Management. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Health Information Student Demographics at UIC

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

UIC Health Information Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 24% of health information bachelor's degrees went to men and 76% went to women. The typical health information bachelor's degree program is made up of only 15% men. So male students are more repesented at UIC since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 42% more racial-ethnic minorities in its health information bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor's in health information.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

UIC Health Information Management Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 32% of health information master's degrees went to men and 68% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 15% men graduate in health information each year. UIC does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 18% more men than average.

In the health information master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 60% of degree recipients. That is 15% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	33
Black or African American	19
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	36
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Related Majors

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 University of Illinois at Chicago.

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
• Image Credit: By Hied5 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.