Pearland, TX (population: 94,215) has nine medical technologist schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Lamar University, the highest ranked school in this group with a medical technologist program, has a total student population of 13,992. It is the 602nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 29th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Medical Technologist students from Pearland 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 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area alone, there are 3,390 employed medical and clinical laboratory technicians earning an average salary of $35,880. Medical and clinical laboratory technologists in this area earn $53,110/yr and there are 3,390 employed.
Pearland lies in Fort Bend county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area has 2,563,840 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.7% unemployment rate, $21.58/hr average worker wage, and a $44,880 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.324 out of every 1000 jobs in Pearland are held by medical and clinical laboratory technologists, and 1.322/1000 are held by medical and clinical laboratory technicians.
Of the 9 medical technologist schools with a 100-mile radius of Pearland, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The College of Health Care Professions comes out as the most expensive ($26,016/yr) for medical technologist students, with Lamar State College-Orange as the lowest, reported at only $2,546/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Pearland |
South Houston | TX | - | 1 | 23.7623 | 5 | 7.6 miles |
Pasadena | TX | 148,101 | 8 | 24.6579 | 264 | 10.4 miles |
League City | TX | 78,312 | 0 | - | 0 | 11.3 miles |
Missouri City | TX | 77,622 | 0 | - | 0 | 15.7 miles |
Houston | TX | 2,307,883 | 63 | 23.3749 | 939 | 16.0 miles |
Texas City | TX | 44,907 | 1 | 8.31197 | 63 | 21.9 miles |
Baytown | TX | 71,405 | 1 | 12.8813 | 98 | 22.8 miles |
Galveston | TX | 57,154 | 3 | 22.3727 | 45 | 33.5 miles |
The Woodlands | TX | 101,065 | 1 | 14.626 | 77 | 43.4 miles |
Conroe | TX | 61,600 | 0 | - | 0 | 53.8 miles |
Prairie View | TX | - | 1 | 50.8259 | 82 | 56.3 miles |
Beaumont | TX | 110,900 | 4 | 27.5152 | 152 | 77.6 miles |
College Station | TX | 90,406 | 1 | 0.218495 | 0 | 94.7 miles |