2022 Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services is the 33rd most popular major in the country with 77,593 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, allied health and medical assisting services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,454 and had an average of $15,514 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 1,320 allied health and medical assisting services graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,752 and $16,274 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 allied health and medical assisting services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in allied health and medical assisting services. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality allied health and medical assisting services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the allied health and medical assisting services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree medical assisting students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services (Income $0-$30k) in Pennsylvania

#1

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$22,255 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania College of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Pennsylvania College of Technology is a public institution located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Penn College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. It costs about $22,255 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Medical Assisting students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Read full report on Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at Penn College

#2

Widener University

Chester, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$31,431 Average Net Price

$71,015 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Widener University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Chester, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 30 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s medical assisting students in 2019-2020.

Widener did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. The yearly cost to attend Widener University is $31,431 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Medical Assisting students whose families make $0-$30k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Widener Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services (Income $0-$30k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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