Las Vegas, NV (population: 570,083) has eight medicine and health schools within its city limits. University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the highest ranked school in the city with a medicine and health program, has a total student population of 29,080. It is the 1903rd highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Nevada (#1 is Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts & Sciences).
Medicine and Health students from Las Vegas 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 Las Vegas-Paradise area alone, there are 11,590 employed registered nurses earning an average salary of $72,950. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $94,600/yr and there are 1,330 employed.
Las Vegas lies in Clark county, which is one of the 8 counties in Nevada. Overall, the Las Vegas-Paradise area has 858,540 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.0% unemployment rate, $19.26/hr average worker wage, and a $40,070 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.546 out of every 1000 jobs in Las Vegas are held by medical and health services managers, and 13.497/1000 are held by registered nurses.
Of the 8 medicine and health schools in Las Vegas, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, High-Tech Institute-Las Vegas comes out as the most expensive ($24,876/yr) for medicine and health students, with University of Nevada-Las Vegas as the lowest, reported at only $8,166/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Las Vegas |
| North Las Vegas | NV | 236,574 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.1 miles |
| Henderson | NV | 265,681 | 11 | 16.4924 | 250 | 17.5 miles |
| Bullhead City | AZ | 41,377 | 0 | - | 0 | 84.6 miles |