In this article, we will provide you with a healthy list of schools in Mississippi that provide students an opportunity to acquire medical assistant skills. Not only will we list the program itself as well as the school’s address for your convenience, but we’ll also provide you with small details about the course itself, including its cost, length, and whether it’s a diploma or degree program.

Find a Medical Assistant Program Near You

Below, we list the schools in Mississippi alphabetically. We plan to update this list, for feel free to return often to see if any changes have been made.

• Healing Touch Career College – Hattiesburg
  4700 Hardy Street, Suite H-1
  Hattiesburg, MS 39402

At Healing Touch Career College, a college which exclusively helps students become either medical assistants or massage therapists, students will enter a program that features classes Monday through Thursdays. Students are given a ten minute break for each hour of class instruction.

Full time students have 16 hours worth of class each week. Those involved in their externship will have class 36-40 hours per week.

• Healing Touch Career College – Jackson
  5360 Interstate 55 North
  Jackson, MS 39211

Upon graduation, students can sit for a certification examination that is provided by the NHA, or National Healthcareer Associate.

• Hinds Community College – Pearl, MS
  Medical Assisting Program
  3805 Highway 80 E
  Pearl , MS – 39208-4295

Hinds provides students with a medical assistant degree program that will take two years to complete. The program is broken up into two semester per year.

The cost of tuition is based, too, on semesters (the price can change depending on whether you are a full-time or part-time student).

On top of that, students will have other fees, like lab fees, housing, meals, summer tuition, parking, etc.

• Northeast Mississippi Community College – Booneville, MS
  Medical Assisting Program
  101 Cunningham Boulevard
  Booneville , MS – 38829-1726

Northeast Mississippi offers a medical assistant technology program to its students.

• Virginia College – Jackson
  5841 Ridgewood Road
  Jackson, MS 39211

At the Jackson campus, Virginia College offers students a diploma program, which is 60 credits long and will take at least 55 weeks to complete. Tuition will cost approximately $22,600.

• Virginia College – Biloxi
  920 Cedar Lake Road
  Biloxi, MS 39532

By contrast, the Biloxi campus offers students the chance to get either a diploma or a degree. The diploma program at Biloxi is still a 55-week program that costs $22,600. However, students who prefer to stay in school longer and earn a degree can expect an 88 weeklong course that costs $36,100 for tuition and fees.

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Disclaimer: All information, statistics, data, guidelines, and requirements regarding each school or program listed above was originally found on the respective school or program’s official website in 2014 and can often be estimates.   Any or all schools or programs can change their information, statistics, data, guidelines, or requirements at any time without warning.  While we do our best to keep information on this page up-to-date, some or all information listed above may have changed or may no longer be accurate.  Please do you own due diligence and research before inquiring about or applying to any school or program.