2023 Most Well Attended Medical Assisting Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s

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 “Most Well Attended Medical Assisting Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s” 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 Far Western US region, there were 17,752 allied health and medical assisting services graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,898 and $12,851 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 45 allied health and medical assisting services graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Medical Assisting Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in allied health and medical assisting services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular allied health and medical assisting services programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Medical Assisting Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree medical assisting students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services in the Far Western US Region

1

Stanford University
Stanford, California

#1 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Medical Assisting Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Stanford University landed the #1 spot on the list. Stanford University is located in Stanford, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 masters’s medical assisting degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at Stanford

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Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, California

#15 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loma Linda University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Medical Assisting Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s list. Loma Linda University is located in Loma Linda, California and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 18 masters’s medical assisting degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 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 Loma Linda University

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.