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2023 Best Value Allied Health Services Schools in Alaska

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$8,750 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$35,346 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, 49 degrees and certificates were awarded to allied health and medical assisting services students who went to a Alaska college or university. This makes it the #19 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Allied Health Services Schools in Alaska ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Alaska to see which 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.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Schools in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Colleges.

Best Alaska Schools for Affordable Quality in Allied Health Services

$8,750 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Anchorage the best value school in Alaska for allied health and medical assisting services students. Located in the city of Anchorage, UAA is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UAA are $8,750 a year. After completing their degree, medical assisting graduates from UAA carry an average student debtload of $18,500.

UAA also made our Best Allied Health Services Schools in Alaska list, coming in at #1.

Full Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at University of Alaska Anchorage Report

#2

Alaska Career College

Anchorage, AK

Out of the 2 schools in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, Alaska Career College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Anchorage, Alaska Career College is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

While working on their degree, medical assisting majors at Alaska Career College accumulate an average of around $9,448 in student debt.

Read full report on Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services at Alaska Career College

Best Value Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
California 1,430
Washington 734
Oregon 91
Nevada 188
Hawaii 65

Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services is one of 30 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308
Public Health 40,596

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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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