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Best Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in South Dakota

2023 Best Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in South Dakota

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Finding the Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Basic Certificate School for You

In 2021-2022, allied health & medical assisting services students earned 123 degrees and certificates from a South Dakota school, making the subject the 7th in the state.

With all the trade school programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in South Dakota ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Dakota to see which ones offered the best basic certificate programs for trade school students.

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2023 Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Basic Certificate Schools in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for medical assisting majors pursuing a basic certificate.

Top South Dakota Trade Schools for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Allied Health Services

Our 2023 rankings named Lake Area Technical Institute the best school in South Dakota for allied health & medical assisting services students working on their basic certificate. LATI is a small public school located in the remote town of Watertown.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Western Dakota Technical Institute. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in South Dakota list. Western Dakota Tech is a small public school located in the rural area of Rapid City.

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Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 945
Missouri 862
Minnesota 1,014
Iowa 477
North Dakota 29
Nebraska 208

Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services is one of 11 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

Medical Assisting Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Medical/Clinical Assistant 54,553
Pharmacy Technician/Assistant 7,327
Physical Therapy Assistant 6,499
Occupational Therapist Assistant 4,508
Other Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services 4,145
Emergency Care Attendant (EMT Ambulance) 3,373
Radiologist Assistant 1,360
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Assistant 571
Respiratory Therapy Technician/Assistant 375
Anesthesiologist Assistant 371
Speech-Language Pathology Assistant 299
Pathology/Pathologist Assistant 157
Lactation Consultant 49

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Medical Administrative Services 88,600
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 85,339
Allied Health Professions 83,905
Health Sciences & Services 36,762
Mental & Social Health Services 30,331

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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 the rest 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).

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