Online Administrative Assistant Schools That are Affordable

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Schools around the country offering online administrative assistant programs charge students an average tuition of $6,485 per year. The average tuition has increased by 13.6% in recent years. The annual average tuition at these onlineschools in 2007 was $5,707.

Online administrative assistant colleges and universities are sometimes called office assistant colleges and universities. Below, the chart displays the tuition range for online administrative assistant colleges from most to least costly:

Tuition Level Number of Schools
Cheapest 5
Low cost 9
Average cost 5
Most expensive 9

A yearly tuition of over $5,400 is charged by the costliest online administrative assistant colleges and universities. The cheapest colleges, however, charge students tuition ranging from $728 to $2,832 yearly. The least expensive accredited online administrative assistant schools are located in Alabama, California, Nebraska, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

  • A.S. in Health Sciences – concentration in Medical Administrative Assistant
  • Associate of Arts and Science in Office Administration – Medical Administrative Assistant
  • Associate of Specialized Business in Administrative Assistant – Legal
  • Associate of Arts and Science in Office Administration – Legal Administrative Assistant
  • Associate of Arts and Science in Office Administration – General Business Administrative Assistant
  • Associate of Arts and Science in Medical Administrative Assistant
  • Associate of Applied Science in Administrative Office Systems – Administrative Assistant
  • Associate of Arts and Science in Administrative Office Systems – Administrative Assistant
  • Associate of Arts and Science in Information Management – Administrative Assistant
  • Associate of Applied Science in Medical Administrative Assistant

These reasonably priced programs graduated roughly 19% of administrative assistant and secretarial science graduates from online schools around the US in 2011. This represents 11,804 of the 61,090 graduates from across the country. From 2006 to 2011, the percentage of administrative assistant and secretarial science graduates from the most inexpensive online colleges has decreased. However, the number of graduates has increased by 12,287 graduates per annum.

Other somewhat more expensive online administrative assistant schools charge students tuition ranging from $3,120 to $4,439 yearly. Approximately 9 of the 28 online schools offering administrative assistant programs in the US charge tuition in this range.

Approximately 37.5% of the nation’s administrative assistant and secretarial science graduates earned their degrees from these low tuition online programs in 2011. This represents 22,930 students. Only 9,744 students graduated from these colleges, only 5 years earlier, in 2006.

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1. Cerritos College Norwalk, California $728 $5,124
2. South Piedmont Community College Polkton, North Carolina $1,808 $7,952
3. Metropolitan Community College Omaha, Nebraska $2,160 $3,218
4. Snead State Community College Boaz, Alabama $2,700 $5,400
5. Nashville State Community College Nashville, Tennessee $2,832 $11,688
6. West Kentucky Community and Technical College Paducah, Kentucky $3,120 $10,680
7. Jefferson Community and Technical College Louisville, Kentucky $3,120 $10,680
8. Elizabethtown Community and Technical College Elizabethtown, Kentucky $3,120 $10,680
9. Bluegrass Community and Technical College Lexington, Kentucky $3,120 $10,680
10. Dakota College at Bottineau Bottineau, North Dakota $3,120 $4,680
11. Northeastern Technical College Cheraw, South Carolina $3,432 $5,760
12. Century Community and Technical College White Bear Lake, Minnesota $4,377 $4,377
13. South Central College North Mankato, Minnesota $4,391 $4,391
14. Minnesota State Community and Technical College Fergus Falls, Minnesota $4,439 $4,439
15. Rochester Community and Technical College Rochester, Minnesota $4,490 $4,490
16. Northland Community and Technical College Thief River Falls, Minnesota $4,577 $4,577
17. Minnesota West Community and Technical College Granite Falls, Minnesota $4,678 $9,356
18. Northwest Technical College Bemidji, Minnesota $4,800 $4,800
19. Minnesota State College Southeast Technical Winona, Minnesota $4,874 $4,874
20. Chabot College Hayward, California $5,400 $5,320

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