Health Information Management at The College of Health Care Professions - Northwest

If you are interested in studying health information management, you may want to check out the program at The College of Health Care Professions - Northwest. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CHCP - Northwest is located in Houston, Texas and approximately 2,811 students attend the school each year. During the the most recent year for which data is available, 21 students received their associate's degree in health information.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Health Information Management section at the bottom of this page.

 

 

CHCP - Northwest Health Information Management Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Health Information

Online Classes Are Available at CHCP - Northwest

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? CHCP - Northwest offers distance education options for health information at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree

CHCP - Northwest Health Information Management Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Health Information Student Demographics at CHCP - Northwest

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health information majors at The College of Health Care Professions - Northwest.

CHCP - Northwest Health Information Management Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 10% of health information associate's degrees went to men and 90% went to women.

CHCP - Northwest does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in health information graduates 49% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The College of Health Care Professions - Northwest with a associate's in health information.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Medical Office Assistant/Specialist
• Health Care Management
• Other Health & Medical Administrative Services
• Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder

Careers That Health Information Grads May Go Into

A degree in health information can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for The College of Health Care Professions - Northwest.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Medical and Health Services Managers	30,010	$105,450

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.