Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services
Add ComparisonThe locations with the highest concentration of Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services degree recipients are Indianapolis city (balance), IN, Columbus, OH, and Storrs, CT. The locations with a relatively high number of Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services degree recipients are Tucker, GA, Jeffersonville, IN, and Loretto, PA. The most common degree awarded to students studying Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services is a bachelors degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services and the types of students that study this field. Ivy Tech Community College awards the most degrees in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services in the US, but Gwinnett College and Caris College have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services.
Tuition costs for Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services majors are, on average, $7,224 for in-state public colleges, and $21,024 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services programs are Public, 2-year institutions (61 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 2-year (2,297 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services, is Public, 2-year (2,297 completions).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Ivy Tech Community College has the most Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services degree recipients, with 902 degrees awarded in 2020.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services.
Out of all institutions that offer Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Gwinnett College has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services, with 55.4%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Health graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Health majors is $78,297 and the most common occupations are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Medical & health services managers.
The industry that employs the most Health majors is General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers.
The average salary for Health majors is $78,297 and the most common occupations are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Medical & health services managers.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Health majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Health majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Health majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Health majors, by number of employees, are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Medical & health services managers.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Health majors working as Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives, Nurse anesthetists, and Audiologists.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Health majors are Surgeons, Physicians, and Chief executives & legislators.
The number of Health graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 4.2%, from 4.13M in 2019 to 4.3M in 2020.
The largest single share of Health graduates go on to work as Registered nurses (36.9%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Health by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Health majors, by number of employees, are General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, Outpatient care centers, and Elementary & secondary schools.
The highest paying industries of Health majors, by average wage, are Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers, Pharmaceutical & medicine manufacturing, and Farm supplies merchant wholesalers.
The number of Health graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 4.2%, from 4.13M in 2019 to 4.3M in 2020.
The industry which employs the most Health graduates by share is General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, followed by Outpatient care centers. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Health.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Health majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Health majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Health. The most common ages of employees with this major are 30 and 28 years old, which represent 2.91% and 2.87% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services are Bachelors Degree, Associates Degree, and 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Health are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Bachelors Degree recipients in Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services. White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Philippines that hold Health degrees (5.24 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Philippines (198,228 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services majors need more than the average amount of Equipment Maintenance, Repairing, and Equipment Selection.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Equipment Maintenance is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, and Critical Thinking are the three most important skills for people in the field.