Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Bachelor’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The medical assisting bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to allied health & medical assisting services students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other allied health & medical assisting services students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt allied health & medical assisting services students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized allied health & medical assisting services related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for allied health & medical assisting services students working on their bachelor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

Due to missing data, we were not able to provide you with the allied health & medical assisting services quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer allied health & medical assisting services and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services ranking.

Best Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Colleges by State

Explore the best allied health & medical assisting services schools for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	228	2

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Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Related Rankings by Major

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Medical Assisting Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Physical Therapy Assistant	12
Occupational Therapist Assistant	9

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing	16,158
Health Sciences & Services	1,570
Health & Medical Administrative Services	1,301
Allied Health Professions	916
Communication Sciences	882
Public Health	622
Dental Support Services	285
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	285
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science	280
Mental & Social Health Services	228

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.