Fort Worth, TX (population: 751,149) has six medicine and health schools within its city limits. Texas Christian University, the highest ranked school in the city with a medicine and health program, has a total student population of 8,853. It is the 142nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 2nd highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University). To learn more about medicine and health programs in Fort Worth, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of medicine and health professors at Texas Christian University such as David Stone.
Medicine and Health students from Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan area alone, there are 13,670 employed registered nurses earning an average salary of $63,400. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $83,160/yr and there are 1,630 employed.
Fort Worth lies in Tarrant county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan area has 856,430 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.1% unemployment rate, $19.78/hr average worker wage, and a $41,140 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.908 out of every 1000 jobs in Fort Worth are held by medical and health services managers, and 15.962/1000 are held by registered nurses.
Of the 6 medicine and health schools in Fort Worth, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Texas Christian University comes out as the most expensive ($24,560/yr) for medicine and health students, with Tarrant County College District as the lowest, reported at only $5,592/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Fort Worth |
| Forth Worth | TX | - | 3 | 11.7915 | 4 | 2.0 miles |
| North Richland Hills | TX | 67,133 | 1 | 26.4697 | 12 | 10.3 miles |
| Arlington | TX | 385,024 | 17 | 27.7925 | 325 | 12.9 miles |
| Keller | TX | 41,437 | 0 | - | 0 | 14.0 miles |
| Mansfield | TX | 51,237 | 5 | 21.6558 | 95 | 17.9 miles |
| Grand Prairie | TX | 167,767 | 3 | 23.6315 | 22 | 19.1 miles |
| Grapevine | TX | 51,993 | 0 | - | 0 | 20.0 miles |
| Irving | TX | 206,798 | 5 | 26.9216 | 138 | 22.8 miles |
| Flower Mound | TX | 72,721 | 0 | - | 0 | 24.2 miles |
| Lewisville | TX | 108,843 | 0 | - | 0 | 29.0 miles |
| Carrollton | TX | 130,013 | 4 | 29.2073 | 85 | 30.5 miles |
| Dallas | TX | 1,304,930 | 38 | 20.246 | 638 | 33.3 miles |
| Denton | TX | 127,364 | 2 | 47.1819 | 284 | 34.1 miles |
| Plano | TX | 282,016 | 1 | 11.5039 | 67 | 40.1 miles |
| University | MS | - | 1 | 33.9448 | 106 | 40.5 miles |
| Frisco | TX | 114,533 | 0 | - | 0 | 40.9 miles |
| Garland | TX | 220,597 | 5 | 20.3828 | 26 | 42.7 miles |
| Mesquite | TX | 134,509 | 2 | 15.1606 | 53 | 43.1 miles |
| Allen | TX | 90,456 | 0 | - | 0 | 46.2 miles |
| Rowlett | TX | 57,581 | 0 | - | 0 | 47.2 miles |
| Corsicana | TX | - | 1 | 14.4403 | 62 | 68.1 miles |
| Cisco | TX | - | 1 | 12.0718 | 82 | 98.8 miles |
| Ardmore | OK | - | 1 | 18.2326 | 23 | 99.2 miles |