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Medicine and Health Schools in California

California contains 363 schools that offer medicine and health programs. University of California-Los Angeles, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in CA, has a total student population of 38,550 and is the 7th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 363 medicine and health schools in California, only 10 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Stanbridge College comes out as the most expensive ($84,600/yr), with California State University-Fullerton as the lowest recorded at only $4,874/yr.

Medicine and Health students from California schools who go on to become medicine and health professionals, office administrators, massage therapists, trainers, 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, Registered nurses make on average $66,530 per year and there are about 2,583,770 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the California alone, there are 233,030 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $85,080. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $101,430/yr and there are 26,750 employed.

Also, within the medicine and health schools in California, the average student population is 4,206 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 18354 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 4,230 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $1,817, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

California Interesting Facts

California's Mount Whitney measures as the highest peak in the lower 48 states. Its most famous climb is Mount Whitney Trail to the 14,495 feet summit. Wilderness permits are required.
In 1925 a giant sequoia located in California's Kings Canyon National Park was named the nation's national Christmas tree. The tree is over 300 feet in height.
More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States.
Pacific Park, on the venerable Santa Monica Pier, re-creates the amusement parks once dotting the ocean areas along the Pacific Coast. Featured are 11 amusement rides including the 1910-vintage hand-carved merry-go-round appearing in the movie "The Sting."
Alpine County is the eighth smallest of California's 58 counties. It has no high school, ATMs, dentists, banks, or traffic lights.

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