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2023 Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Associate Degree Schools in South Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$5,066 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$27,621 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Health & Medical Administrative Services Associate Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, health and medical administrative services students earned 302 degrees and certificates from a South Carolina school, making the subject the 6th in the state.

With all the healthcare programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Associate Degree Schools in South Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in South Carolina to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for health and medical administrative services students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Health & Medical Administrative Services Associate Degree Schools in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Health & Medical Administrative Services Associate Degree Colleges.

Best South Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Health/Medical Admin Services

#1

Trident Technical College

Charleston, SC

Our analysis found Trident Technical College to be the best value school for health and medical administrative services students who want to pursue a associate degree in South Carolina. Trident Technical College is a large public school located in the midsize city of Charleston.

Trident Technical College undergraduate students pay an average of $5,143 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Trident Technical College also made our Best Health/Medical Admin Services Associate Degree Schools in South Carolina list, coming in at #1.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Greenville Technical College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Associate Degree Schools in South Carolina list. Located in the small city of Greenville, GTC is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at GTC are $5,186 per year. The average amount in student loans that health and medical administrative services majors at GTC take out while working on their Associate Degree is $25,224.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, GTC is ranked #3 for overall quality for health and medical administrative services in South Carolina.

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The excellent associate degree programs at Florence-Darlington Technical College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value health and medical administrative services schools in South Carolina. Florence-Darlington Technical College is a small public school located in the suburb of Florence.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Florence-Darlington Technical College are $4,870 a year.

Florence-Darlington Technical College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Health/Medical Admin Services Associate Degree Schools in South Carolina list.

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Best Value Health & Medical Administrative Services Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Health & Medical Administrative Services Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Florida 8,048
North Carolina 2,189
Tennessee 479
Kentucky 482
Georgia 1,116
West Virginia 435
Virginia 988
Louisiana 674
Mississippi 459
Alabama 622
Arkansas 178

Health & Medical Administrative Services is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.

Health & Medical Administrative Services Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Health Care Management 31,436
Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder 10,149
Health Information/Medical Records Technology/Technician 9,664
Medical Insurance Specialist/Medical Biller 8,186
Medical Administrative/Executive Assistant & Medical Secretary 8,049
Medical Office Assistant/Specialist 4,894
Hospital & Health Care Facilities Administration/Management 4,391
Medical Office Management/Administration 3,564
Health Information Management 3,317
Other Health & Medical Administrative Services 2,245
Medical/Health Management & Clinical Assistant/Specialist 1,180
Medical Reception/Receptionist 781
Long Term Care Administration/Management 353
Clinical Research Coordinator 344
Medical Office Computer Specialist/Assistant 224
Medical Transcription/Transcriptionist 198
Healthcare Innovation 183
Health Unit Coordinator/Ward Clerk 94
Medical Staff Services Technology/Technician 26
Health Unit Manager/Ward Supervisor 22
Health/Medical Claims Examiner 15
Disease Registry Data Management 8
Healthcare Information Privacy Assurance and Security 7

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308
Public Health 40,596

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools 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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