Hempstead, NY (population: 54,072) has seventeen dialysis technician schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. New York University, the highest ranked school in this group with a dialysis technician program, has a total student population of 43,404. It is the 13th highest ranked school in the USA and the 2nd highest in the state of New York (#1 is Columbia University in the City of New York).
Dialysis Technician students from Hempstead schools who go on to become dialysis technicians, medical technologists, medical technicians, radiology technicians, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 166,860 people working as medical and clinical laboratory technologists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $55,620. Also, Medical and clinical laboratory technicians make on average $37,860 per year and there are about 152,420 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Nassau-Suffolk Metropolitan area alone, there are 1,120 employed medical and clinical laboratory technicians earning an average salary of $46,440. Medical and clinical laboratory technologists in this area earn $65,720/yr and there are 1,590 employed.
Hempstead lies in Nassau county, which is one of the 28 counties in New York. Overall, the Nassau-Suffolk Metropolitan area has 1,225,710 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.1% unemployment rate, $24.13/hr average worker wage, and a $50,190 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.295 out of every 1000 jobs in Hempstead are held by medical and clinical laboratory technologists, and 0.914/1000 are held by medical and clinical laboratory technicians.
Of the 17 dialysis technician schools with a 100-mile radius of Hempstead, only 8 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, New York University comes out as the most expensive ($34,011/yr) for dialysis technician students, with Camden County College as the lowest, reported at only $3,258/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Hempstead |
| Garden City | NY | - | 5 | 29.9653 | 250 | 2.0 miles |
| Levittown | NY | 54,433 | 2 | 30.9098 | 14 | 5.9 miles |
| Hicksville | NY | 41,571 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.3 miles |
| Bethpage | NY | - | 1 | 14.1078 | 16 | 7.9 miles |
| Fresh Meadows | NY | - | 1 | 41.5392 | 2 | 8.7 miles |
| Farmingdale | NY | - | 1 | 52.4784 | 41 | 9.4 miles |
| Jamaica | NY | - | 3 | 22.786 | 65 | 9.5 miles |
| Far Rockaway | NY | - | 2 | 14.0585 | 4 | 9.6 miles |
| Queens | NY | - | 1 | 36.0611 | 122 | 9.9 miles |
| Syosset | NY | - | 2 | 24.7065 | 10 | 10.7 miles |
| Amityville | NY | - | 1 | 35.0667 | 7 | 10.7 miles |
| Whitestone | NY | - | 1 | 33.134 | 2 | 12.3 miles |
| Rego Park | NY | - | 1 | 27.7974 | 9 | 12.8 miles |
| Jackson Heights | NY | - | 1 | 28.2916 | 7 | 14.4 miles |
| Ridgewood | NY | - | 1 | 34.5795 | 2 | 15.0 miles |
| Bronx | NY | - | 10 | 27.317 | 379 | 16.6 miles |
| New York City | NY | 8,459,026 | 86 | 26.2632 | 1,528 | 16.9 miles |
| New Rochelle | NY | 74,592 | 3 | 35.7163 | 149 | 17.4 miles |
| Long Island City | NY | - | 4 | 18.9499 | 59 | 17.5 miles |
| Brooklyn | NY | - | 46 | 21.7861 | 571 | 17.7 miles |
| Mount Vernon | NY | 68,747 | 8 | 36.4632 | 259 | 18.2 miles |
| West New York | NJ | 47,282 | 1 | 33.6373 | 6 | 19.5 miles |
| Bronxville | NY | - | 2 | 40.2295 | 43 | 19.9 miles |
| Northport | NY | - | 1 | 22.5858 | 10 | 20.1 miles |
| Brentwood | NY | 62,689 | 3 | 7.13275 | 13 | 20.2 miles |
| Hoboken | NJ | 41,307 | 1 | 72.0499 | 47 | 21.7 miles |
| Yonkers | NY | 206,441 | 3 | 17.9245 | 2 | 21.7 miles |
| North Bergen | NJ | 59,771 | 0 | - | 0 | 22.4 miles |
| Jersey City | NJ | 242,594 | 10 | 25.9195 | 190 | 23.1 miles |
| White Plains | NY | 57,617 | 2 | 21.3371 | 15 | 23.3 miles |