Health & Medical Administrative Services at Western Illinois University

If you are interested in studying health and medical administrative services, you may want to check out the program at Western Illinois University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

WIU is located in Macomb, Illinois and has a total student population of 7,490. Of the 1,560 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Western Illinois University in 2021, 19 of them were health and medical administrative services majors.

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

WIU Health & Medical Administrative Services Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health & Medical Administrative Services

WIU Health & Medical Administrative Services Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the health and medical administrative services progam at WIU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The health and medical administrative services major at WIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Health & Medical Administrative 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	193
Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Schools	519
Most Focused Health/Medical Admin Services Schools	1,388

Earnings of WIU Health & Medical Administrative Services Graduates

The median salary of health and medical administrative services students who receive their bachelor's degree at WIU is $37,077. This is less than $38,040, which is the national average of all health and medical administrative services majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Health & Medical Administrative Services Student Demographics at WIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health and medical administrative services majors at Western Illinois University.

WIU Health & Medical Administrative Services Bachelor’s Program

Of the 19 health and medical administrative services students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from WIU, about 16% were men and 84% were women. The typical health and medical administrative services bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at WIU since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% more racial-ethnic minorities in its health and medical administrative services bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Western Illinois University with a bachelor's in health and medical administrative services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

WIU also has a doctoral program available in health and medical administrative services. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science
• Public Health
• Allied Health Professions
• Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services
• Communication Sciences

Careers That Health & Medical Administrative Services Grads May Go Into

A degree in health and medical administrative services can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Western Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	40,540	$59,170
Computer User Support Specialists	24,920	$53,020
Medical Assistants	23,830	$35,910
Administrative Services Managers	16,950	$97,840
Medical Secretaries	16,260	$36,320

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 IlliniGradResearch under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.