Laboure College

Date: Apr 22 2013
Major: School of Information (This Major's Salary over time)
Do not enroll in the HIM degree program, you will be able to repay your loans due to low salary for HIM positions. Most of the positions in HIM departments are low skills level jobs (don't need a degree, high school diploma sufficient). The degree is De-Valued because somebody with a certificate in coding will likely be making more money than you. You will have to work for at least 4 years in low salary jobs before you can get a management job. The very few high pay jobs have 5 years requirement experience. Most of the Universities have dropped this Major for various reasons (students defaulting in loans, unable to find co-op experience for students, etc.)

When you find your first job, you better make sure you do a good job or stay there even if you don't like it. If you don't like it or leave early (for whatever reasons) you are screw professionally. People talk in this industry, and you will probably get screw when looking for another job. This is unheard of, one person can basically wreck your professional career through false gossiping (at those state meetings ). Once the person put out some negative comments about you, it travels through the industry, and you are screw.

I applied for a coding job in Washington DC, the pay rate was $10 an hour for inpatient coder. I was shock, all this education and money I spent on obtaining my degree at Laboure, and the pay scale is only 10 dollars an hour for inpatient coding. I wish somebody had told me about this industry before, now I'm screw unable to pay my loans.