Boise City, ID (population: 210,099) has eight medicine and health schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. The College of Idaho, the highest ranked school in this group with a medicine and health program, has a total student population of 1,013. It is the 384th highest ranked school in the USA and the 2nd highest in the state of Idaho (#1 is University of Idaho).
Medicine and Health students from Boise City 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 Boise City-Nampa area alone, there are 5,120 employed registered nurses earning an average salary of $65,250. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $75,160/yr and there are 850 employed.
Boise City lies in Ada county, which is one of the 33 counties in Idaho. Overall, the Boise City-Nampa area has 264,010 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $19/hr average worker wage, and a $39,600 average annual salary. Thus, about 3 out of every 1000 jobs in Boise City are held by medical and health services managers, and 19/1000 are held by registered nurses.
Of the 8 medicine and health schools with a 100-mile radius of Boise City, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Idaho Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,120/yr) for medicine and health students, with Treasure Valley Community College as the lowest, reported at only $7,355/yr.