Salt Lake City, UT (population: 184,856) has eight medicine and health schools within its city limits. University of Utah, the highest ranked school in the city with a medicine and health program, has a total student population of 29,284. It is the 129th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Utah. To learn more about medicine and health programs in Salt Lake City, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of medicine and health professors at University of Utah such as Karen Brown, A Fleckenstein, Kurt Hegmann, Carolyn Hollingshead, Orlandi Richard, and Alan Smith.
Medicine and Health students from Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake City area alone, there are 9,210 employed registered nurses earning an average salary of $60,930. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $92,140/yr and there are 1,350 employed.
Salt Lake City lies in Salt Lake county, which is one of the 16 counties in Utah. Overall, the Salt Lake City area has 609,730 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $19.97/hr average worker wage, and a $41,530 average annual salary. Thus, about 2.213 out of every 1000 jobs in Salt Lake City are held by medical and health services managers, and 15.103/1000 are held by registered nurses.
Of the 8 medicine and health schools in Salt Lake City, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Utah Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,719/yr) for medicine and health students, with Latter-day Saints Business College as the lowest, reported at only $9,403/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Salt Lake City |
| West Valley City | UT | 125,842 | 2 | 24.4175 | 17 | 7.5 miles |
| Bountiful | UT | 45,723 | 1 | 31.5415 | 2 | 7.6 miles |
| Taylorsville | UT | 59,591 | 0 | - | 0 | 8.3 miles |
| Murray | UT | 47,260 | 5 | 23.4081 | 160 | 9.2 miles |
| South Jordan | UT | 57,903 | 1 | 13.1531 | 4 | 15.4 miles |
| Riverton | UT | 43,424 | 1 | 20.2082 | 84 | 18.0 miles |
| Ogden | UT | 83,448 | 4 | 19.4308 | 199 | 31.2 miles |
| Orem | UT | 95,419 | 4 | 27.4 | 168 | 35.3 miles |
| Provo | UT | 120,524 | 6 | 30.5292 | 247 | 39.7 miles |