Philadelphia, PA (population: 1,445,993) has seven care management schools within its city limits. University of Pennsylvania, the highest ranked school in the city with a care management program, has a total student population of 24,599. It is the 5th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Pennsylvania. To learn more about care management programs in Philadelphia, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of care management professors at University of Pennsylvania such as Helene Elting.
Care Management students from Philadelphia schools who go on to become care managers, physicians, doctors, nurses, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 3,886,690 people working as healthcare support employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $26,710. Also, Healthcare practitioner and technical employees make on average $69,690 per year and there are about 7,200,950 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area alone, there are 116,510 employed healthcare practitioner and technical employees earning an average salary of $69,260. Healthcare support employees in this area earn $28,020/yr and there are 65,990 employed.
Philadelphia lies in Philadelphia county, which is one of the 32 counties in Pennsylvania. Overall, the Philadelphia Metropolitan area has 1,832,880 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $23.24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,340 average annual salary. Thus, about 36.002 out of every 1000 jobs in Philadelphia are held by healthcare support employees, and 63.567/1000 are held by healthcare practitioner and technical employees.
Of the 7 care management schools in Philadelphia, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Saint Joseph's University comes out as the most expensive ($34,548/yr) for care management students, with Temple University as the lowest, reported at only $15,715/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Philadelphia |
| Camden | NJ | 79,551 | 3 | 29.1661 | 117 | 5.0 miles |
| Willow Grove | PA | - | 3 | 11.6322 | 2 | 9.3 miles |
| Cherry Hill | NJ | 67,762 | 4 | 25.0729 | 31 | 10.3 miles |
| Villanova | PA | - | 1 | 40.5194 | 89 | 11.8 miles |
| Bensalem | PA | - | 1 | 22.0218 | 10 | 12.1 miles |
| Lester | PA | - | 1 | 30.6119 | 9 | 12.6 miles |
| Saint Davids | PA | - | 1 | 63.725 | 73 | 13.3 miles |
| Mount Laurel | NJ | - | 1 | 24.9456 | 10 | 13.7 miles |
| Media | PA | - | 3 | 15.9195 | 126 | 15.1 miles |
| North Wales | PA | - | 1 | 28.6361 | 21 | 16.0 miles |
| Sewell | NJ | - | 1 | 12.0629 | 44 | 16.9 miles |
| Immaculata | PA | - | 1 | 58.1716 | 78 | 23.2 miles |
| Ewing | NJ | - | 1 | 79.0387 | 77 | 24.9 miles |
| Exton | PA | - | 3 | 20.3095 | 11 | 26.4 miles |
| Hamilton | NJ | 90,700 | 4 | 37.771 | 92 | 28.0 miles |
| Pottstown | PA | - | 2 | 23.767 | 4 | 31.9 miles |
| New Castle | DE | - | 1 | 19.251 | 66 | 33.4 miles |
| West Windsor | NJ | - | 1 | 10.9855 | 60 | 33.6 miles |
| Center Valley | PA | - | 2 | 15.5079 | 66 | 38.5 miles |
| Vineland | NJ | 59,417 | 1 | 13.5656 | 33 | 38.7 miles |
| Ocean | NJ | - | 1 | 28.4333 | 4 | 43.5 miles |
| Mays Landing | NJ | - | 1 | 11.4678 | 27 | 44.1 miles |
| Lincoln University | PA | - | 1 | 24.1268 | 75 | 44.6 miles |
| Bethlehem | PA | 72,174 | 6 | 30.1067 | 269 | 44.7 miles |
| Allentown | PA | 107,685 | 6 | 40.2718 | 194 | 44.8 miles |
| East Brunswick | NJ | 48,086 | 0 | - | 0 | 47.4 miles |
| Fogelsville | PA | - | 1 | 23.1549 | 18 | 47.7 miles |
| Reading | PA | 80,046 | 7 | 29.6919 | 274 | 48.0 miles |
| New Brunswick | NJ | 52,736 | 2 | 41.2629 | 152 | 48.9 miles |
| Toms River | NJ | 131,619 | 3 | 29.102 | 89 | 51.1 miles |