McAllen, TX has one medical technologist school within its city limits. South Texas Vocational Technical Institute-McAllen has a total student population of 474. It is the 2731st highest ranked school in the USA and the 124th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Medical Technologist students from McAllen schools who go on to become medical technologists, medical informatics specialists, medical technicians, health information technologists, 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area alone, there are 270 employed medical and clinical laboratory technicians earning an average salary of $30,010. Medical and clinical laboratory technologists in this area earn $48,470/yr and there are 210 employed.
McAllen lies in Hidalgo county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area has 220,110 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.1% unemployment rate, $14.93/hr average worker wage, and a $31,060 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.969 out of every 1000 jobs in McAllen are held by medical and clinical laboratory technologists, and 1.242/1000 are held by medical and clinical laboratory technicians.
After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, South Texas Vocational Technical Institute-McAllen ends up costing a student $26,568/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from McAllen |
| MacAllen | TX | 136,555 | 0 | - | 0 | 1.3 miles |
| Mission | TX | 72,240 | 1 | 13.4932 | 47 | 5.6 miles |
| Edinburg | TX | 78,199 | 1 | 56.8684 | 94 | 8.0 miles |
| Weslaco | TX | - | 3 | 27.2027 | 22 | 15.2 miles |
| Harlingen | TX | 66,846 | 2 | 18.8953 | 48 | 33.5 miles |
| Brownsville | TX | 183,598 | 3 | 13.2766 | 77 | 50.3 miles |