Georgia contains 120 schools that offer medicine and health programs. Emory University, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in GA, has a total student population of 12,930 and is the 30th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 120 medicine and health schools in Georgia, only 7 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Omnitech Institute comes out as the most expensive ($44,240/yr), with Altamaha Technical College as the lowest recorded at only $6,031/yr.
Medicine and Health students from Georgia 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 Georgia alone, there are 65,370 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $60,940. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $85,490/yr and there are 9,720 employed.
Also, within the medicine and health schools in Georgia, the average student population is 2,956 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 19 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 5022 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,167 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,057, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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