2025 Best Health Information Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
2Colleges in the Southwest Region
41Associate Degrees
an associate degree in health information management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #230 out of 1020 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for health information management students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 41 associate degrees in health information management during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to health information management students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other health information management students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health information management related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for health information management students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Health Information Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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.