I just started online College to get my Associates degree in Medical Assisting. It will take 2 years. I was just wondering if anyone knew the difference in earning potential for a person with an Associates degree versus a certificate.
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I just started online College to get my Associates degree in Medical Assisting. It will take 2 years. I was just wondering if anyone knew the difference in earning potential for a person with an Associates degree versus a certificate.
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#1 by ? Brunette Latina ? at February 10th, 2010
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Stormy, it’s best to go to a regular school as opposed to an online on. Many so called on-line MA courses are scams.
Here in Chicago, MA’s make anywhere from $14-16 an hour with or without an Associates –
Of course other states may vary in pay. Some states pay you LESS as a medical assistant, so MA’s here in the windy city consider themselves lucky to be making what they do.
Good luck and best wishes in your career
#2 by sunrayta at February 10th, 2010
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They make the same as a MA without one. However if you are doing this to pursue a bachelors, keep up the work, however as dobby stated this is a certificate program and this usually takes less than 9mths to receive.
#3 by LInda at February 10th, 2010
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Why get an associates degree in medical assistant when you can just get an associates degree in nursing and make twice as much money as a nurse than as a medical assistant.
#4 by dobby at February 10th, 2010
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I’m a medical assistant with a bachelors of science degree. it doesn’t matter this is not a degree program only a certificate. you make the same as everyone else. only senority matters with pay rate.
depending on where you live you will only make between $7-13 an hour. its the same pay that laboratory techs, home health aides, nursing aides, and patient technicians make. your degree even if its in medicine or science such as mine are won’t make a bit of difference except it will make more eligable for hire. and maybe you will start with more pay but the pay range is the same. someone with more experience than you but no college education will make the same starting pay as you and have just as much likely to get hire.
don’t be fooled Medical assiting is not an associates degree program, i went to ross medical which is just a technical school to get my MA assitant certificate. in just 6 -8 weeks. or maybe it was 12 weeks either way it didn’t take two years.