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2023 Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$34,937 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$80,613 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Health & Medical Administrative Services Graduate Certificate School for You

Health & Medical Administrative Services is one of the most popular subjects to study in California. With 3,003 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 6th out of all the majors we track in the state.

Today's healthcare students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Healthcare Degree Search has developed this Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for health and medical administrative services students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Health & Medical Administrative Services Graduate Certificate Schools in California

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

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Health/Medical Admin Services

Our 2023 rankings named California State University - Northridge the best value school in California for health and medical administrative services students working on their graduate certificate. CSUN is a fairly large public school located in the city of Northridge.

CSUN graduate students pay an average of $8,477 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Health/Medical Admin Services Graduate Certificate Schools in California list. USC is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Los Angeles.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at USC are $61,396 a year.

USC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Health/Medical Admin Services Graduate Certificate Schools in California list.

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Best Value Health & Medical Administrative Services Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Oregon 287
Washington 497
Nevada 123
Hawaii 41
Alaska 7

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, health and medical administrative services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Health & Medical Administrative Services Concentrations

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 2 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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