7 best college degrees for healthcare IT roles

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Healthcare IT workers can make six-figure salaries — no medical degree required.

Here are the top college degrees for a career in health IT (along with median annual pay), according to an Investopedia data analysis published Dec. 6:

1. Bioinformatics/computational biology: $150,000-plus (senior roles)

2. Computer science (BS) — health track: $140,000

3. Health informatics/information management (BS/MS): $135,000

4. Cybersecurity/info assurance (BS/MS): $120,000-plus

5. Data science/biostatistics (BS/MS): $115,000-plus

6 (tie). Biomedical engineering (BS/MS): $105,000

6 (tie). Medical imaging and radiation sciences: $105,000

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