Health & Medical Administrative Services at Palo Alto College

If you are interested in studying health and medical administrative services, you may want to check out the program at Palo Alto College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Palo Alto College is located in San Antonio, Texas and approximately 11,193 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Health & Medical Administrative Services section at the bottom of this page.

Palo Alto College Health & Medical Administrative Services Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Health & Medical Administrative Services

Palo Alto College Health & Medical Administrative Services Rankings

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Health & Medical Administrative Services Student Demographics at Palo Alto College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health and medical administrative services majors at Palo Alto College.

Palo Alto College Health & Medical Administrative Services Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 15% of health and medical administrative services associate's degrees went to men and 85% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in health and medical administrative services only graduates about 13% men each year. The program at Palo Alto College may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 2% more women than average.

Palo Alto College does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in health and medical administrative services graduates 30% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Palo Alto College with a associate's in health and medical administrative services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Health & Medical Administrative Services

If you plan to be a health and medical administrative services major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Palo Alto College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Hospital & Health Care Facilities Administration/Management	27

Related Majors

• Health/Medical Prep Programs

Careers That Health & Medical Administrative Services Grads May Go Into

A degree in health and medical administrative services can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Palo Alto College.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	117,010	$59,580
Medical Secretaries	92,990	$34,150
Computer User Support Specialists	60,380	$52,250
Medical Assistants	59,930	$31,580
Medical and Health Services Managers	30,010	$105,450

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.