Accredited medical assistant programs
1,221 medical assistant programs at accredited schools, approved for WIOA funding in 50 states and territories
That is 65% of the 1,865 medical assistant programs that states have approved for workforce funding. The schools are on the US Department of Education's list of accredited schools. The Department doesn't accredit schools itself: it reviews accrediting agencies and lists the ones it recognizes as reliable judges of the quality of the education they accredit.1
The program itself can be accredited too: the Department's list records that for the medical assistant program at 22 of these schools. Another program accreditor, CAAHEP, accredits medical assistant programs3 and keeps its own directory: search CAAHEP's accredited programs.
WIOA funding doesn't require accreditation: besides colleges, a state can approve other public and private training providers.2 Funding comes through your own state's list, so pick your state below.
All medical assistant programs by state, accredited or not, with costs and results
Accredited medical assistant programs in each state
- Alabama12accredited schools, 12 programs
- Alaska5accredited schools, 6 programs
- Arizona25accredited schools, 28 programs
- Arkansas4accredited schools, 4 programs
- California74accredited schools, 89 programs
- Colorado8accredited schools, 21 programs
- Connecticut5accredited schools, 6 programs
- Delaware2accredited schools, 2 programs
- Florida57accredited schools, 70 programs
- Georgia29accredited schools, 40 programs
- Hawaii5accredited schools, 8 programs
- Idaho1accredited school, 1 program
- Illinois51accredited schools, 59 programs
- Indiana13accredited schools, 86 programs
- Iowa15accredited schools, 15 programs
- Kansas4accredited schools, 4 programs
- Kentucky11accredited schools, 11 programs
- Louisiana32accredited schools, 47 programs
- Maine10accredited schools, 13 programs
- Maryland16accredited schools, 16 programs
- Massachusetts14accredited schools, 21 programs
- Michigan51accredited schools, 60 programs
- Minnesota11accredited schools, 16 programs
- Mississippi10accredited schools, 11 programs
- Missouri26accredited schools, 35 programs
- Montana3accredited schools, 3 programs
- Nebraska4accredited schools, 4 programs
- Nevada8accredited schools, 10 programs
- New Hampshire7accredited schools, 9 programs
- New Jersey16accredited schools, 21 programs
- New Mexico11accredited schools, 13 programs
- New York13accredited schools, 17 programs
- North Carolina48accredited schools, 65 programs
- North Dakota2accredited schools, 2 programs
- Ohio72accredited schools, 94 programs
- Oklahoma13accredited schools, 17 programs
- Oregon10accredited schools, 11 programs
- Pennsylvania12accredited schools, 16 programs
- Rhode Island3accredited schools, 3 programs
- South Carolina2accredited schools, 2 programs
- South Dakota4accredited schools, 4 programs
- Tennessee34accredited schools, 44 programs
- Texas62accredited schools, 91 programs
- Utah11accredited schools, 11 programs
- Vermont1accredited school, 1 program
- Virginia24accredited schools, 26 programs
- Washington34accredited schools, 39 programs
- West Virginia5accredited schools, 5 programs
- Wisconsin23accredited schools, 26 programs
- Wyoming5accredited schools, 6 programs
Schools with medical assistant programs that the state approved for WIOA funding and that are on the Department of Education's list. A school approved in two states counts in each.
How the accredited medical assistant schools were found
Which programs are counted?
Programs that states approved for WIOA funding, from the US Department of Labor's file for program year 2024 (July 2024 to June 2025).4 The two lists share no ID number, so we matched each school by its website and name in the same state, and checked every unclear case by hand. A school that only hosts a college's classes doesn't count as the college.
How current is the accreditation?
We read the Department's list of October 24, 2026 and count only current accreditation. The Department notes that agencies report this information, that it isn't audited, and that the agency itself has the latest status.1
Sources for the accreditation facts about medical assistant programs
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- US Department of Education, Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs (DAPIP), data files of 2026-10-24
- 20 CFR 680.410, What is an eligible training provider? (eCFR)
- Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), Committees on Accreditation
- US Department of Labor, Training and Employment Guidance Letter 8-19, Attachment I: Requirements for Training Providers, Program Eligibility, and the State Eligible Training Provider (ETP) List