by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Assisting Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services is the 48th most popular major in the country with 84,492 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, allied health and medical assisting services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,905 and had an average of $16,497 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 20,908 allied health and medical assisting services graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,654 and $17,531 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 allied health and medical assisting services graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Assisting Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in allied health and medical assisting services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in allied health and medical assisting services.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Assisting Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree medical assisting students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Assisting Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Newberry College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Newberry, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s medical assisting students in 2020-2021.
Full Newberry College Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Report
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Assisting Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University landed the #2 spot on the list. Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It awarded 9 bachelors’s medical assisting degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Assisting Major in the Southeast Region list. South College is a private for-profit institution located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at South College
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Assisting Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Nova Southeastern University landed the #4 spot on the list. NUS Florida is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at Nova Southeastern University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Adventist University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Medical Assisting Major in the Southeast Region list. Southern Adventist University is located in Collegedale, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s medical assisting degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at Southern Adventist University
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