San Antonio, TX (population: 1,402,013) has twenty-one medicine and health schools within its city limits. St Marys University, the highest ranked school in the city with a medicine and health program, has a total student population of 3,893. It is the 405th highest ranked school in the USA and the 12th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Medicine and Health students from San Antonio 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 San Antonio area alone, there are 14,830 employed registered nurses earning an average salary of $65,150. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $84,420/yr and there are 1,660 employed.
San Antonio lies in Bexar county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the San Antonio area has 837,030 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $18.25/hr average worker wage, and a $37,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.980 out of every 1000 jobs in San Antonio are held by medical and health services managers, and 17.714/1000 are held by registered nurses.
Of the 21 medicine and health schools in San Antonio, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Hallmark College of Technology/Hallmark College of Aeronautics comes out as the most expensive ($37,478/yr) for medicine and health students, with San Antonio College as the lowest, reported at only $3,422/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from San Antonio |
| Seguin | TX | - | 2 | 43.9208 | 52 | 33.7 miles |
| Kerrville | TX | - | 2 | 41.881 | 56 | 55.5 miles |
| Austin | TX | 792,778 | 27 | 18.4164 | 459 | 74.4 miles |
| Cedar Park | TX | 72,258 | 0 | - | 0 | 83.3 miles |
| Pflugerville | TX | 43,849 | 1 | 21.9644 | 4 | 86.3 miles |
| Georgetown | TX | 55,998 | 3 | 24.3873 | 208 | 95.8 miles |