Omaha, NE (population: 449,283) has two medical office schools within its city limits. Vatterott College-Spring Valley Campus, the highest ranked school in the city with a medical office program, has a total student population of 748. It is the 3939th highest ranked school in the USA and the 34th highest in the state of Nebraska (#1 is University of Nebraska at Kearney).
Medical Office students from Omaha schools who go on to become medical office administrators, office administrators, medical billing specialists, medical office assistants, 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, 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 Omaha-Council Bluffs-IA area alone, there are 590 employed medical and clinical laboratory technicians earning an average salary of $34,110. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $85,000/yr and there are 1,090 employed.
Omaha lies in Douglas county, which is one of the 40 counties in Nebraska. Overall, the Omaha-Council Bluffs-IA area has 452,130 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $19.23/hr average worker wage, and a $40,000 average annual salary. Thus, about 2.421 out of every 1000 jobs in Omaha are held by medical and health services managers, and 1.306/1000 are held by medical and clinical laboratory technicians.
Of the 2 medical office schools in Omaha, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Vatterott College-Spring Valley Campus comes out as the most expensive ($16,595/yr) for medical office students, with Metropolitan Community College Area as the lowest, reported at only $6,723/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Omaha |
Papillion | NE | - | 1 | 19.7538 | 14 | 7.5 miles |
Council Bluffs | IA | 59,918 | 3 | 15.2545 | 57 | 7.9 miles |
Lincoln | NE | 257,612 | 13 | 28.3679 | 496 | 46.7 miles |
Peru | NE | - | 1 | 16.7679 | 31 | 56.2 miles |
Crete | NE | - | 1 | 28.8976 | 48 | 66.3 miles |
Sioux City | IA | 83,250 | 6 | 24.3659 | 219 | 88.0 miles |