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Best Value Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in North Carolina

2023 Best Value Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

20 Colleges
$3,100 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services is one of the most popular subjects to study in North Carolina. With 1,765 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022, it ranked 5th out of all the majors we track in the state.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in North Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 20 schools in North Carolina to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for medical assisting students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.


 

2023 Best Value Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Basic Certificate Schools in North Carolina

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

Top 10 Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Basic Certificate Schools

#1

Craven Community College

New Bern, NC

Our analysis found Craven Community College to be the best value school for allied health & medical assisting services students who want to pursue a basic certificate in North Carolina. Craven Community College is a small public school located in the city of New Bern.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Craven Community College are $2,022 a year.

Craven Community College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in North Carolina list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Southwestern Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the distant town of Sylva, Southwestern Community College is a public school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Southwestern Community College are $2,229 per year.

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The excellent basic certificate programs at South Piedmont Community College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value allied health & medical assisting services schools in North Carolina. Located in the rural area of Polkton, South Piedmont Community College is a public school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at South Piedmont Community College are $2,015 per year.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Alamance Community College is a great value for allied health & medical assisting services students working on their basic certificate. ACC is a small public school located in the rural area of Graham.

ACC undergraduate students pay an average of $2,498 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Montgomery Community College is a great value for allied health & medical assisting services students working on their basic certificate. Located in the rural area of Troy, MCC is a public college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at MCC are $2,538 a year.

MCC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in North Carolina list.

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Richmond Community College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for allied health & medical assisting services students to get a basic certificate. It came in at #6 on the list. Richmond Community College is a small public school located in the town of Hamlet.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Richmond Community College are $2,536 a year.

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With a ranking of #7, Vance-Granville Community College did quite well on this year’s best value schools for allied health & medical assisting services students working on their basic certificate. Located in the town of Henderson, Vance-Granville Community College is a public college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Vance-Granville Community College are $1,944 a year.

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Surry Community College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for allied health & medical assisting services students to get a basic certificate. It came in at #8 on the list. Surry Community College is a small public school located in the rural area of Dobson.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Surry Community College are $2,663 a year.

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Lenoir Community College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for allied health & medical assisting services students to get a basic certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the distant town of Kinston, Lenoir Community College is a public school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Lenoir Community College are $2,568 per year.

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Central Piedmont Community College ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the large city of Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Central Piedmont Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $2,792 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Central Piedmont Community College also took the #3 spot in our Best Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in North Carolina rankings.

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Best Value Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
South Carolina 774
Georgia 2,571
Arkansas 500
Florida 6,643
West Virginia 810
Louisiana 2,022
Virginia 1,147
Alabama 1,021
Kentucky 1,120
Tennessee 1,693
Mississippi 664

One of 11 majors within the trade school area of study, allied health & medical assisting services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Medical Assisting Concentrations

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 20 schools only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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