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Palmdale, CA
(population: 150,264) has
twenty-three medical assistant schools within
a 100-mile radius of its city center.
Palladium Technical Academy, the highest ranked school in this group with a medical assistant program, has a total student population of 76. It is the
1087th highest ranked school in the USA and the
76th highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles).
Medical Assistant students from Palmdale schools who go on to become
medical assistants,
nurses,
dental assistants,
medical office assistants, etc.
have a good chance at finding employment.
For example, there are 495,970 people working as
medical assistants alone in the US, and their average annual salary is
$29,450.
Also, Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses make on average $40,900 per year and there are about 728,670 of them employed in the US today.
Of the 23 medical assistant schools
with a 100-mile radius of
Palmdale,
none
have a student population over 10k.
After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid,
LA College International
comes out as the most expensive ($48,672/yr) for medical assistant students, with Pomona Unified School District Adult and Career Education as the lowest, reported at only $4,932/yr.