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2022 Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

5 Ranked Colleges
58 Degrees Awarded
$26,500 Avg Salary
Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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 the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” 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 the Southeast region, there were 19,977 allied health and medical assisting services graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,697 and $16,807 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 allied health and medical assisting services graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the allied health and medical assisting services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree medical assisting students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k. FranU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

FranU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $16,282 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Medical Assisting students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend FranU.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Middle Georgia State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Middle Georgia State University is a medium-sized school located in Macon, Georgia that handed out 11 bachelors’s medical assisting degrees in 2019-2020.

Middle Georgia State University also made our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Middle Georgia State University is $11,782 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Medical Assisting students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read full report on Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at Middle Georgia State University

#3

Newberry College

Newberry, South Carolina
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Newberry College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Newberry College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Newberry, South Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Newberry College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $19,395 for southeast region bachelor’s degree medical assisting students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Newberry College.

Full Newberry College Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Report

#4

Nova Southeastern University

Fort Lauderdale, Florida
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Nova Southeastern University landed the #4 spot on the list. NUS Florida is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s medical assisting degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NUS Florida, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $25,060 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Medical Assisting students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend NUS Florida.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full NUS Florida Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Report

#5

South College

Knoxville, Tennessee
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South College. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Assisting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s medical assisting degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

South College also took the #5 spot in our “Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend South College is $18,400 for southeast region bachelor’s degree medical assisting students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read more about Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at South College

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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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