2025 Best Medical/Clinical Assistant Associate Degree Schools in California

20 Colleges in California

693 Associate Degrees

Medical/Clinical Assistant is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #21 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

College Factual reviewed 20 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of medical/clinical assistant. Combined, these schools handed out 693 associate degrees in medical/clinical assistant to qualified students.

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Best Associate Degree Schools List

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Choosing a Great Medical/Clinical Assistant School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of medical/clinical assistant for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality medical/clinical assistant program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

Major Focus - How much a school focuses on medical/clinical assistant students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of medical/clinical assistant students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized medical/clinical assistant related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for medical/clinical assistant students working on their associate degree.

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