2025 Best Medical Office Assistant/Specialist Associate Degree Schools in Virginia

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 Virginia 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 80 associate degrees in medical office assistant/specialist during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

The medical office assistant/specialist associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality medical office assistant/specialist program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good 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 much a school focuses on medical office assistant/specialist students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of medical office assistant/specialist 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 office assistant/specialist related body.

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

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Medical Office Assistant/Specialist Associate Degree Schools in Virginia list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Medical Office Assistant/Specialist in Virginia

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

Top Virginia Schools for an Associate in Medical Office Assistant/Specialist

1

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

43 Annual Graduates

Liberty University 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 Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a associate in medical office assistant/specialist from Liberty University

2

Centura College - Norfolk
Norfolk, VA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in medical office assistant/specialist has to check out Centura College - Norfolk. Centura College - Norfolk is a small private for-profit college located in the city of Norfolk.More information about a associate in medical office assistant/specialist from Centura College - Norfolk

3

Centura College - Chesapeake
Chesapeake, VA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

19 Annual Graduates

Centura College - Chesapeake is one of the finest schools in the country for getting an associate degree in medical office assistant/specialist. Located in the large city of Chesapeake, Centura College - Chesapeake is a private for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a associate in medical office assistant/specialist from Centura College - Chesapeake

Best Medical Office Assistant/Specialist Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Medical Office Assistant/Specialist Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	232	7
Georgia	217	16
Tennessee	170	17
Arkansas	161	2
Kentucky	129	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Medical Office Assistant/Specialist

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

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Health Information/Medical Records Technology/Technician	45
Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder	25
Medical Administrative/Executive Assistant & Medical Secretary	21

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.