Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at Ohio State University - Main Campus

If you are interested in studying allied health & medical assisting services, you may want to check out the program at Ohio State University - Main Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Ohio State is located in Columbus, Ohio and has a total student population of 61,369.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services section at the bottom of this page.

Ohio State Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Assisting

Ohio State Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Rankings

The medical assisting major at Ohio State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Medical Assisting Student Demographics at Ohio State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the medical assisting majors at Ohio State University - Main Campus.

Ohio State Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 22% of medical assisting bachelor's degrees went to men and 78% went to women. The typical medical assisting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 14% men. So male students are more repesented at Ohio State since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 68% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in medical assisting at Ohio State are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Ohio State University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in medical assisting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	39
Black or African American	53
Hispanic or Latino	24
White	295
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	22

Concentrations Within Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services

If you plan to be a medical assisting major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Ohio State University - Main Campus. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Other Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services	366

Related Majors

• Medical Illustration & Informatics
• Health Sciences & Services
• Mental & Social Health Services
• Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services
• Bioethics/Medical Ethics

Careers That Medical Assisting Grads May Go Into

A degree in medical assisting can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for OH, the home state for Ohio State University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
Medical Assistants	23,930	$31,900
Pharmacy Technicians	16,190	$30,500
Health Specialties Professors	10,330	$130,280
Physical Therapist Assistants	5,990	$58,740
Health Technologists and Technicians	5,460	$42,780

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
• Image Credit: By Michael Barera under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.