2025 Best Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

If you pursue a associate degree in medical insurance coding specialist/coder, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #78 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for medical insurance coding specialist/coder students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 73 associate degrees in medical insurance coding specialist/coder to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder School for Your Associate Degree

The medical insurance coding specialist/coder associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality medical insurance coding specialist/coder program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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 medical insurance coding specialist/coder students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of medical insurance coding specialist/coder students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• 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 medical insurance coding specialist/coder related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for medical insurance coding specialist/coder students working on their associate degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder in the Southwest Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in medical insurance coding specialist/coder.

Top Southwest Region Schools for an Associate in Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder

1

Central Texas College
Killeen, TX

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

22 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in medical insurance coding specialist/coder needs to take a look at Central Texas College. Located in the suburb of Killeen, Central Texas College is a public college with a medium-sized student population.More information about a associate in medical insurance coding specialist/coder from Central Texas College

2

Community Care College
Tulsa, OK

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Community Care College if you want to pursue an associate degree in medical insurance coding specialist/coder. Community Care College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Tulsa.More information about a associate in medical insurance coding specialist/coder from Community Care College

3

Southwest University at El Paso
El Paso, TX

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

32 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Southwest University at El Paso if you wish to pursue an associate degree in medical insurance coding specialist/coder. Located in the city of El Paso, Southwest University at El Paso is a private for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a associate in medical insurance coding specialist/coder from Southwest University at El Paso

Best Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder Colleges by State

Explore the best medical insurance coding specialist/coder colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	420	79
Oklahoma	222	46

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Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder Related Rankings by Major

One of 23 majors within the Health & Medical Administrative Services area of study, Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Health Care Management	441
Health Information/Medical Records Technology/Technician	407
Other Health & Medical Administrative Services	336
Medical Administrative/Executive Assistant & Medical Secretary	79
Medical/Health Management & Clinical Assistant/Specialist	73
Health Information Management	41
Hospital & Health Care Facilities Administration/Management	25
Clinical Research Coordinator	25
Medical Office Assistant/Specialist	22
Medical Office Management/Administration	8

Notes and References

• 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.
• 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.