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Most Popular Online Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region

2023 Most Popular Online Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region

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In 2021-2022, 83,587 allied health & medical assisting services students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #3 most popular in the country.

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.

The Most Popular Online Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 5 schools in the Southeast Region to see which ones were the most popular online basic certificate programs for trade school students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.


 

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for medical assisting majors pursuing an online basic certificate.

#1

Martinsburg College

Martinsburg, WV

Our 2023 rankings named Martinsburg College the most popular online school in the Southeast Region for allied health & medical assisting services students working on their basic certificate. Martinsburg College is a small private for-profit school located in the midsize suburb of Martinsburg.

Of the 284 students majoring in medical assisting at Martinsburg College, 4% are male and 96% are female.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Georgia Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the small city of Warner Robins, CGTC is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

Women make up 95% of the medical assisting majors at the school.

Full Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at Central Georgia Technical College Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Allied Health Services Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region list. Southwestern Community College is a small public school located in the town of Sylva.

Women make up 94% of the medical assisting majors at the school.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Bossier Parish Community College is a great place for allied health & medical assisting services students working on their online basic certificate. Bossier Parish Community College is a medium-sized public school located in the small city of Bossier City.

About 95% of the students majoring in medical assisting at the school are women while 5% are male.

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The in-demand online basic certificate programs at Greenville Technical College helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best allied health & medical assisting services schools in the Southeast Region . Located in the small city of Greenville, GTC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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Explore the most popular online allied health & medical assisting services schools for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
South Carolina 774
Georgia 2,571
Arkansas 500
North Carolina 1,765
Florida 6,643
West Virginia 810
Louisiana 2,022
Virginia 1,147
Alabama 1,021
Kentucky 1,120
Tennessee 1,693
Mississippi 664

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 5 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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