The main focus area for this major is Medical/Clinical Assistant. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services is a major offered under the health professions program of study at Monroe College. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the associate degree program in medical assisting, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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Part-time undergraduates at Monroe College paid an average of $624 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $14,796 | $14,796 |
Fees | $1,560 | $1,560 |
Books and Supplies | $900 | $900 |
On Campus Room and Board | $11,300 | $11,300 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $4,800 | $4,800 |
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One factor in determining the overall cost in a degree is to consider how much in student loans you’ll have to take out. Medical Assisting students who received their associate degree at Monroe College took out an average of $13,500 in student loans. That is 31% lower than the national average of $19,521.
The median early career salary of medical assisting students who receive their associate degree from Monroe College is $22,034 per year. That is 27% lower than the national average of $30,020.
Online degrees for the Monroe College medical assisting associate degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Monroe College Online Learning page.
Women made up around 88.9% of the medical assisting students who took home an associate degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 81.1%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 94.4% of the medical assisting associate degrees at Monroe College in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 44%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 17 |
Hispanic or Latino | 33 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 1 |
International Students | 2 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Medical/Clinical Assistant | 54 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to allied health and medical assisting services.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Health & Medical Administrative Services | 82 |
Allied Health Professions | 51 |
Nursing | 37 |
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*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.
More about our data sources and methodologies.