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2023 Best Value Alternative Medical Support Services Basic Certificate Schools

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$12,462 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Alternative Medical Support Services Basic Certificate School for You

Alternative Medical Support Services is the #29 most popular major in the country with 227 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which healthcare program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Healthcare Degree Search has developed this Best Value Alternative Medical Support Services Basic Certificate Schools ranking.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best Alternative Medical Support Services Basic Certificate School

#1

Oakton Community College

Des Plaines, IL

Our analysis found Oakton Community College to be the best value school for alternative medical support services students who want to pursue a basic certificate in the United States. Oakton Community College is a moderately-sized public school located in the small city of Des Plaines.

Oakton Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $12,462 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Oakton Community College also did well on our Best Alternative Medical Support Services Basic Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Alternative Medical Support Services by Region

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Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Alternative Medical Support Services is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.

Alternative Medical Support Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Other Alternative and Complementary Medical Support Services 138
Direct Entry Midwifery 89

Majors Similar to Alternative Medical Support

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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