San Antonio, TX (population: 1,402,013) has three health administration schools within its city limits. University of the Incarnate Word, the highest ranked school in the city with a health administration program, has a total student population of 6,756. It is the 535th highest ranked school in the USA and the 23rd highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Health Administration students from San Antonio schools who go on to become health administratorss, physicians, nurses, health care administrators, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 271,710 people working as medical and health services managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $90,970. Also, Physicians and surgeons make on average $173,860 per year and there are about 274,160 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the San Antonio area alone, there are 2,120 employed physicians and surgeons earning an average salary of $131,640. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $84,420/yr and there are 1,660 employed.
San Antonio lies in Bexar county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the San Antonio area has 837,030 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $18.25/hr average worker wage, and a $37,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.980 out of every 1000 jobs in San Antonio are held by medical and health services managers, and 2.531/1000 are held by physicians and surgeons.
Of the 3 health administration schools in San Antonio, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-San Antonio Campus comes out as the most expensive ($25,174/yr) for health administration students, with Our Lady of the Lake University-San Antonio as the lowest, reported at only $13,591/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from San Antonio |
Seguin | TX | - | 2 | 43.9208 | 52 | 33.7 miles |
Kerrville | TX | - | 2 | 41.881 | 56 | 55.5 miles |
Austin | TX | 792,778 | 27 | 18.4164 | 459 | 74.4 miles |
Cedar Park | TX | 72,258 | 0 | - | 0 | 83.3 miles |
Pflugerville | TX | 43,849 | 1 | 21.9644 | 4 | 86.3 miles |
Georgetown | TX | 55,998 | 3 | 24.3873 | 208 | 95.8 miles |