Fargo, ND (population: 95,232) has three medicine and health schools within its city limits. Salon Professional Academy, the highest ranked school in the city with a medicine and health program, has a total student population of 107. It is the 1313th highest ranked school in the USA and the 4th highest in the state of North Dakota (#1 is University of Mary).
Medicine and Health students from Fargo 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 Fargo-MN area alone, there are 1,230 employed registered nurses earning an average salary of $61,710. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $72,160/yr and there are 160 employed.
Fargo lies in Cass county, which is one of the 32 counties in North Dakota. Overall, the Fargo-MN area has 120,180 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 2.6% unemployment rate, $17.77/hr average worker wage, and a $36,960 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.312 out of every 1000 jobs in Fargo are held by medical and health services managers, and 10.245/1000 are held by registered nurses.
Of the 3 medicine and health schools in Fargo, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Salon Professional Academy comes out as the most expensive ($16,614/yr) for medicine and health students, with North Dakota State University-Main Campus as the lowest, reported at only $12,847/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Fargo |
| Moorhead | MN | - | 4 | 25.9555 | 267 | 2.5 miles |
| Grand Forks | ND | 52,135 | 2 | 28.0655 | 156 | 72.9 miles |