2025 Best Medical Office Assistant/Specialist Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region

If you plan on getting your associate degree in medical office assistant/specialist, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #148 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for medical office assistant/specialist students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 83 associate degrees in medical office assistant/specialist during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Medical Office Assistant/Specialist School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of medical office assistant/specialist for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host 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 many resources a school devotes to medical office assistant/specialist students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other medical office assistant/specialist students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• 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 office assistant/specialist related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Medical Office Assistant/Specialist Schools

The medical office assistant/specialist school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Medical Office Assistant/Specialist Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Medical Office Assistant/Specialist in the Far Western US Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in medical office assistant/specialist.

Top Far Western US Region Schools for an Associate in Medical Office Assistant/Specialist

1

Platt College - Los Angeles
Alhambra, CA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

21 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in an associate degree in medical office assistant/specialist needs to check out Platt College - Los Angeles. Located in the suburb of Alhambra, Platt College - Los Angeles is a private for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a associate in medical office assistant/specialist from Platt College - Los Angeles

2

Platt College - Riverside
Riverside, CA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Platt College - Riverside is one of the best schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in medical office assistant/specialist. Located in the city of Riverside, Platt College - Riverside is a private for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a associate in medical office assistant/specialist from Platt College - Riverside

3

Platt College - Anaheim
Anaheim, CA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

19 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in an associate degree in medical office assistant/specialist has to take a look at Platt College - Anaheim. Platt College - Anaheim is a small private for-profit college located in the city of Anaheim.More information about a associate in medical office assistant/specialist from Platt College - Anaheim

Best Medical Office Assistant/Specialist Colleges by State

Explore the best medical office assistant/specialist colleges for a specific state in the Far Western US Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	405	77
Washington	288	3

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Medical Office Assistant/Specialist Related Rankings by Major

Medical Office Assistant/Specialist is one of 23 different types of Health & Medical Administrative Services programs to choose from.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Health Information/Medical Records Technology/Technician	387
Medical Administrative/Executive Assistant & Medical Secretary	320
Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder	210
Medical Insurance Specialist/Medical Biller	79
Health Care Management	63
Health Information Management	19
Hospital & Health Care Facilities Administration/Management	3
Medical Office Management/Administration	2

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.