Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services programs in Texas
143 schools in Texas teach this, at certificate or associate level. 88 of them report what graduates earn two years out; the highest is $61,516 at Tarrant County College District.
What this work pays in Texas
Medical Assistants in Texas earn a median of $39,520 a year across 75,340 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.
| Also leads to | Median | Jobs in Texas |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy Technicians | $45,900 | 41,740 |
| Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary | $108,150 | 18,960 |
| Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other | $47,870 | 15,370 |
| Physical Therapist Assistants | $78,000 | 10,510 |
| Healthcare Support Workers, All Other | $45,250 | 10,320 |
Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.
Schools
| School | Credential | Median debt | Graduate earnings, 2 yrs | Graduates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarrant County College District Fort Worth | Associate's degree | — | $61,516 (30 grads) | 39 |
| Western Technical College El Paso | Associate's degree | — | $56,641 (28 grads) | 18 |
| Western Technical College El Paso | Associate's degree | — | $56,641 (28 grads) | — |
| Weatherford College Weatherford | Associate's degree | $10,500 | $56,415 (39 grads) | 36 |
| Victoria College Victoria | Associate's degree | — | $56,234 (14 grads) | 14 |
| Navarro College Corsicana | Associate's degree | $15,311 | $53,671 (34 grads) | 35 |
| Blinn College District Brenham | Associate's degree | $13,242 | $53,608 (24 grads) | 20 |
| San Jacinto Community College Pasadena | Associate's degree | — | $53,608 (21 grads) | 34 |
| Concorde Career College-Dallas Dallas | Associate's degree | $26,101 | $53,497 (57 grads) | 13 |
| Wharton County Junior College Wharton | Associate's degree | — | $52,941 (15 grads) | 10 |
| Concorde Career College-San Antonio San Antonio | Associate's degree | $24,817 | $52,107 (57 grads) | 15 |
| Tyler Junior College Tyler | Associate's degree | $13,784 | $52,107 (18 grads) | 31 |
| Houston City College Houston | Associate's degree | $15,000 | $51,231 (70 grads) | 87 |
| St Philip's College San Antonio | Associate's degree | — | $50,439 (56 grads) | 44 |
| Austin Community College District Austin | Associate's degree | $13,000 | $49,491 (42 grads) | 41 |
| South Plains College Levelland | Associate's degree | — | $48,823 (23 grads) | 16 |
| Kilgore College Kilgore | Associate's degree | — | $48,432 (11 grads) | 24 |
| Lone Star College System The Woodlands | Associate's degree | $8,042 | $47,686 (68 grads) | 70 |
| Pima Medical Institute-El Paso El Paso | Associate's degree | $26,524 | $45,723 (535 grads) | 27 |
| Pima Medical Institute-Houston Houston | Associate's degree | $26,524 | $45,723 (535 grads) | 48 |
| Laredo College Laredo | Associate's degree | — | $45,500 (46 grads) | 25 |
| South University-Austin Round Rock | Associate's degree | $23,000 | $43,489 (538 grads) | 21 |
| Amarillo College Amarillo | Associate's degree | $13,304 | $41,789 (38 grads) | 35 |
| Del Mar College Corpus Christi | Associate's degree | $5,085 | $39,369 (57 grads) | 40 |
| McLennan Community College Waco | Associate's degree | $11,250 | $38,289 (44 grads) | 32 |
| Houston City College Houston | Undergraduate certificate | — | $32,658 (29 grads) | 95 |
| Remington College-Dallas Campus Dallas | Associate's degree | $20,000 | $29,779 (148 grads) | 18 |
| Remington College-Fort Worth Campus North Richland Hills | Associate's degree | $20,000 | $29,779 (148 grads) | 19 |
| Remington College-Houston Southeast Campus League City | Associate's degree | $20,000 | $29,779 (148 grads) | 0 |
| Lone Star College System The Woodlands | Undergraduate certificate | $5,625 | $29,685 (14 grads) | 57 |
| Arlington Career Institute Arlington | Undergraduate certificate | — | $28,960 (23 grads) | 43 |
| El Paso Community College El Paso | Associate's degree | — | $28,019 (30 grads) | 30 |
| South Texas College McAllen | Associate's degree | — | $27,822 (85 grads) | 51 |
| Lamson Institute San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | $8,155 | $27,584 (44 grads) | 94 |
| Pima Medical Institute-El Paso El Paso | Undergraduate certificate | $8,890 | $27,140 (3,437 grads) | 139 |
| Pima Medical Institute-Houston Houston | Undergraduate certificate | $8,890 | $27,140 (3,437 grads) | 190 |
| Pima Medical Institute-San Antonio San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | $8,890 | $27,140 (3,437 grads) | 65 |
| Amarillo College Amarillo | Undergraduate certificate | — | $26,933 (13 grads) | 54 |
| Concorde Career College-Dallas Dallas | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $26,651 (473 grads) | 170 |
| The College of Health Care Professions-Northwest Houston | Associate's degree | — | $25,452 (66 grads) | — |
| The College of Health Care Professions-Austin Austin | Undergraduate certificate | $8,598 | $25,438 (178 grads) | 217 |
| The College of Health Care Professions-Dallas Dallas | Undergraduate certificate | $8,598 | $25,438 (178 grads) | 173 |
| Concorde Career College-San Antonio San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $24,695 (391 grads) | 85 |
| Hallmark University San Antonio | Associate's degree | — | $24,532 (21 grads) | — |
| PCI Health Training Center Dallas | Undergraduate certificate | $8,498 | $24,048 (376 grads) | 253 |
| San Jacinto Community College Pasadena | Undergraduate certificate | — | $24,035 (21 grads) | 91 |
| Texas Health School Houston | Undergraduate certificate | $7,100 | $24,035 (72 grads) | 15 |
| College of Health Care Professions Houston | Undergraduate certificate | $9,428 | $23,535 (494 grads) | 136 |
| The College of Health Care Professions-Fort Worth Fort Worth | Undergraduate certificate | $9,428 | $23,535 (494 grads) | 268 |
| The College of Health Care Professions-McAllen Campus McAllen | Undergraduate certificate | $9,428 | $23,535 (494 grads) | 229 |
| The College of Health Care Professions-Northwest Houston | Undergraduate certificate | $9,428 | $23,535 (494 grads) | 586 |
| The College of Health Care Professions-San Antonio San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | $9,428 | $23,535 (494 grads) | 182 |
| The College of Health Care Professions-South San Antonio San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | $9,428 | $23,535 (494 grads) | 160 |
| The College of Health Care Professions-Southwest Houston Houston | Undergraduate certificate | $9,428 | $23,535 (494 grads) | 241 |
| Concorde Career College-Grand Prairie Grand Prairie | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $23,533 (239 grads) | 157 |
| Angelina College Lufkin | Undergraduate certificate | — | $22,920 (14 grads) | 18 |
| Remington College-Dallas Campus Dallas | Undergraduate certificate | $14,120 | $22,125 (2,111 grads) | 126 |
| Remington College-Fort Worth Campus North Richland Hills | Undergraduate certificate | $14,120 | $22,125 (2,111 grads) | 68 |
| Remington College-Houston Southeast Campus League City | Undergraduate certificate | $14,120 | $22,125 (2,111 grads) | 51 |
| Fortis College Houston | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $22,083 (450 grads) | 78 |
| Fortis Institute Houston | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $22,083 (450 grads) | 85 |
| Texas State Technical College Waco | Undergraduate certificate | — | $21,894 (12 grads) | — |
| Milan Institute-Amarillo Amarillo | Undergraduate certificate | $7,633 | $20,596 (146 grads) | 26 |
| Milan Institute-San Antonio Ingram San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | $9,235 | $20,182 (344 grads) | — |
| Panola College Carthage | Undergraduate certificate | — | $20,140 (11 grads) | 23 |
| Texas State Technical College Waco | Associate's degree | — | $20,140 (13 grads) | — |
| CyberTex Institute of Technology Austin | Undergraduate certificate | $6,933 | $19,607 (187 grads) | 128 |
| Western Technical College El Paso | Undergraduate certificate | $11,247 | $19,606 (281 grads) | 66 |
| Miller-Motte College-STVT-Arlington Arlington | Undergraduate certificate | $12,668 | $19,082 (610 grads) | 0 |
| Miller-Motte College-STVT-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi | Undergraduate certificate | $12,668 | $19,082 (610 grads) | 53 |
| Miller-Motte College-STVT-McAllen McAllen | Undergraduate certificate | $12,668 | $19,082 (610 grads) | 107 |
| South Texas Vocational Technical Institute-Brownsville Brownsville | Undergraduate certificate | $12,668 | $19,082 (610 grads) | 114 |
| South Texas Vocational Technical Institute-Weslaco Weslaco | Undergraduate certificate | $12,668 | $19,082 (610 grads) | 76 |
| Southeast Texas Career Institute Silsbee | Undergraduate certificate | $7,600 | $19,045 (13 grads) | 7 |
| Southern Careers Institute-Austin Austin | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $18,838 (1,585 grads) | 85 |
| Southern Careers Institute-Brownsville Brownsville | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $18,838 (1,585 grads) | 141 |
| Southern Careers Institute-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $18,838 (1,585 grads) | 181 |
| Southern Careers Institute-Harlingen Harlingen | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $18,838 (1,585 grads) | 102 |
| Southern Careers Institute-Pharr Pharr | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $18,838 (1,585 grads) | 216 |
| Southern Careers Institute-San Antonio San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $18,838 (1,585 grads) | 196 |
| Southern Careers Institute-San Antonio San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $18,838 (1,585 grads) | 141 |
| Southern Careers Institute-Waco Waco | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | $18,838 (1,585 grads) | 86 |
| Vernon College Vernon | Undergraduate certificate | — | $18,771 (12 grads) | 11 |
| Northwest Vista College San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | — | $17,717 (12 grads) | 8 |
| Southwest School of Business and Technical Careers-San Antonio San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | $7,387 | $17,707 (90 grads) | 54 |
| Southwest University at El Paso El Paso | Undergraduate certificate | — | $17,246 (421 grads) | 9 |
| South Texas Training Center Pharr | Undergraduate certificate | $4,008 | $16,642 (226 grads) | 99 |
| Southwest University at El Paso El Paso | Associate's degree | $17,367 | $16,580 (27 grads) | 230 |
| CCI Training Center-Arlington Arlington | Undergraduate certificate | $8,360 | not published | 66 |
| Dallas College Dallas | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 31 |
| Dallas College Dallas | Associate's degree | — | not published | 2 |
| Howard College Big Spring | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 26 |
| Northeast Texas Community College Mount Pleasant | Associate's degree | $9,500 | not published | 28 |
| Northwest Educational Center Houston | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 79 |
| Parker University Dallas | Associate's degree | $21,000 | not published | 16 |
| Rio Grande Valley College Pharr | Undergraduate certificate | $8,233 | not published | 110 |
| Texas Healthtech Institute Beaumont | Undergraduate certificate | $6,967 | not published | 51 |
| Valley Grande Institute for Academic Studies Weslaco | Undergraduate certificate | $9,500 | not published | 6 |
| Alvin Community College Alvin | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 20 |
| Alvin Community College Alvin | Associate's degree | — | not published | 5 |
| Angelina College Lufkin | Associate's degree | — | not published | 11 |
| Austin Career Institute, LLC Austin | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 15 |
| Austin Community College District Austin | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 22 |
| CTK Healthcare & Career Institute Irving | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 12 |
| Cisco College Cisco | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 9 |
| Cisco College Cisco | Associate's degree | — | not published | 4 |
| College of the Mainland Texas City | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 18 |
| College of the Mainland Texas City | Associate's degree | — | not published | 6 |
| Collin County Community College District McKinney | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 20 |
| Collin County Community College District McKinney | Associate's degree | — | not published | 2 |
| CyberTex Institute of Technology Austin | Associate's degree | — | not published | — |
| Del Mar College Corpus Christi | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 9 |
| El Paso Community College El Paso | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 40 |
| Galveston College Galveston | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | — |
| Howard College Big Spring | Associate's degree | — | not published | — |
| Institute of Allied Healthcare San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 54 |
| Lamar Institute of Technology Beaumont | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 9 |
| Lamar State College-Orange Orange | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 18 |
| Lamar State College-Orange Orange | Associate's degree | — | not published | 0 |
| Lamar State College-Port Arthur Port Arthur | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | — |
| Laredo College Laredo | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 13 |
| Maestro College Dallas | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 58 |
| Maestro College Arlington | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 83 |
| Midland College Midland | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 11 |
| Northeast Texas Community College Mount Pleasant | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 12 |
| Northwest Vista College San Antonio | Associate's degree | — | not published | 7 |
| Nuvani Institute San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | — |
| Odessa College Odessa | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 0 |
| Odessa College Odessa | Associate's degree | — | not published | 10 |
| Panola College Carthage | Associate's degree | — | not published | 25 |
| Rio Grande Valley College Pharr | Associate's degree | — | not published | — |
| San Antonio College San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 7 |
| San Antonio College San Antonio | Associate's degree | — | not published | 6 |
| South Texas College McAllen | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 52 |
| Tarrant County College District Fort Worth | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 11 |
| Texarkana College Texarkana | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 6 |
| Texarkana College Texarkana | Associate's degree | — | not published | 0 |
| Trinity Valley Community College Athens | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 14 |
| Trinity Valley Community College Athens | Associate's degree | — | not published | — |
| University of the Incarnate Word San Antonio | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 0 |
| University of the Incarnate Word San Antonio | Associate's degree | — | not published | 0 |
| Western Texas College Snyder | Undergraduate certificate | — | not published | 7 |
| Western Texas College Snyder | Associate's degree | — | not published | 5 |
A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.
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The U.S. Department of Education publishes new cost, debt and earnings figures once a year, and every number on this page changes at once. One email when that happens for Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services — nothing else, and nothing in between.
Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.