Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos
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Overview
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos is in a large suburb with more than 250,000 residents. It is in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad CA area.
Highlights
Undergraduate program with the highest reported starting salary ($55K): Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions
Largest undergraduate program (82): Medical/Clinical Assistant
Address
111 Campus Way
San Marcos, CA 92078
pmi.edu
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good
Institutional Control
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos is a private for-profit organization.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos holds an accreditation from one of the national accreditors. Credits earned from the national accreditors are often not accepted by schools holding the more prestigious regional accreditation, and it's important to verify that your credits will transfer if you are considering an eventual switch to another school.
Accreditation History
Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (Accredited January 17, 2017 - present)
  • The next accreditation review is scheduled for February 28, 2023.
Undergraduate Students
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Admissions
Open Admissions
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos is an open admissions school and accepts any student who applies.
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Admissions Details
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Admissions Criteria & Qualifications
Admissions Criteria & Qualifications
Application Fee & Common App
Application Fee & Common App
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos has an undergraduate application fee of $0. We did not find Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos on the Common Application site. Keep in mind that it never hurts to inquire with an Admissions office to see whether they might be willing to waive your application fee.
Credits accepted from new students
Credits accepted from new students
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos accepts the following credits:
  • Open admission (school accepts any student who applies)
  • Credit for life experiences
Programs
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos program offerings
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1-2 Year Certificate
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Costs
Current Program Costs

Schools report total costs for (up to) their six largest career-oriented programs. You can explore the costs by selecting the "+" symbol for programs that interest you. The average months to complete apply to full-time students. Additionally, if program length is reported in contact hours, then the time literally represents time with an instructor. Alternatively, credit hours approximate instructional time, but are not inclusive of total time spent by students in learning.

The cost details offer you comparisons to the costs of similar programs available in your context group. However, schools offering similar programs often have slightly different times to complete, and therefore we have grouped all programs that are 6 or fewer months, over 6 to 12 months, over 12 to 18 months, and more than 18 months. You can find the other schools offering this program using our school explorer.

You will find the most up-to-date information at this school's website for admissions.

Dental Assisting/Assistant (9 Months)
This program is Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos's 5th largest program. On average, students take 9 months of full-time study to complete the required 32 credit hours. This program is being compared to all Dental Assisting/Assistant certificate programs within the context schools that take longer than 6 months and up to a full year to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$722
$16,480
Context: costs of similar programs
$17,202$8,000$10,000$12,000$14,000$16,000$18,000$20,000
Medical Administrative/Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary (8 Months)
This program is Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos's 6th largest program. On average, students take 8 months of full-time study to complete the required 29 credit hours. This program is being compared to all Medical Administrative/Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary certificate programs within the context schools that take longer than 6 months and up to a full year to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$1,142
$10,673
Context: costs of similar programs
$11,815$5,000$10,000$15,000$20,000
Medical/Clinical Assistant (9 Months)
This program is Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos's 1st largest program. On average, students take 9 months of full-time study to complete the required 34 credit hours. This program is being compared to all Medical/Clinical Assistant certificate programs within the context schools that take longer than 6 months and up to a full year to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$778
$14,882
Context: costs of similar programs
$15,660$8,000$10,000$12,000$14,000$16,000$18,000$20,000
Phlebotomy Technician/Phlebotomist (3 Months)
This program is Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos's 4th largest program. On average, students take 3 months of full-time study to complete the required 300 contact hours. This program is being compared to all Phlebotomy Technician/Phlebotomist certificate programs within the context schools that take 6 months or fewer to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$962
$4,404
Context: costs of similar programs
$5,366$0$2,000$4,000$6,000
Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist (22 Months)
This program is Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos's 2nd largest program. On average, students take 22 months of full-time study to complete the required 87 credit hours. This program is being compared to all Respiratory Care Therapy/Therapist certificate programs within the context schools that take longer than 18 months to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$2,455
$43,325
Context: costs of similar programs
$45,780$10,000$20,000$30,000$40,000$50,000
Veterinary/Animal Health Technology/Technician and Veterinary Assistant (8 Months)
This program is Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos's 3rd largest program. On average, students take 8 months of full-time study to complete the required 30 credit hours. This program is being compared to all Veterinary/Animal Health Technology/Technician and Veterinary Assistant certificate programs within the context schools that take longer than 6 months and up to a full year to complete.
Expense type
Books and supplies
Tuition and fees
Amount
$830
$138,071
Context: costs of similar programs
$138,901$0$50,000$100,000$150,000
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Area living cost estimates
The following cost of living estimates apply to this school's largest program and should reflect the cost for an academic year. We would expect that these costs of living estimates would be uniform across programs, and we additionally recommend that you double-check the estimates through a different source. We found that schools have wildly different estimates of living expenses within the same areas.
Expense type
Miscellaneous costs when living off campus with family
Miscellaneous costs when living off campus without family
Off-campus room and board
Amount
$4,734
$4,734
$13,020
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Historic Costs by Program
You can explore the programs and corresponding lengths and costs offered over the past ten years using the drop-down menu below the graph. The programs only appear if they were one of the six largest programs offered that year. All dollar amounts have been adjusted for inflation.
Program and length
Dental Assisting/Assistant (9 months)
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Net price: the best estimate for the cost to attend
Most schools publish tuition rates that give them room to offer both scholarships and financial aid where applicable. Your best estimate of what might pay is to see what others with similar family incomes have paid. A more tailored and accurate estimate is available at this school's net price calculator.
Understanding net price

With their net price calculators, many colleges and universities give an idea of what merit-based aid might accompany need-based aid. For schools that share such data, we also provide financial aid data in the Finanical Aid sections.

There are some caveats to consider when using the net price estimates:

  • The net price calculation is weighted by this school's proportion of students living on- and off-campus and this school's estimate of off-campus costs, which may cause the net price methodology be a bit inconsistent from school to school.
  • Parental income and student financial aid eligibility is sometimes more complicated than the simple family income number reported here.
  • The net price calculation for all students is inclusive of students who received any institutional or government aid, but at the family income levels the net price only considers the tuition paid by those who qualified for federal aid.

You can get a little better guess at what you would pay by using this school's net price calculator.

Percentage of students receiving any aid
The donut, based on 226 full-time first-time degree seeking students at Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos, shows the percentage of those who received any financial aid (including merit-based scholarships), subdivided by family income.
29%
Aid type and family income
Federal: $0-30K
Federal: $30K-48K
Federal: $48K-75K
Federal: $75K-110K
Federal: Above $110K
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Net price by family income
All Incomes
Let's look over the past few years at what freshmen who received any financial aid actually paid for tuition, fees, books, and living expenses on average, and how that compares to the tuition usually paid for other private universities in your context group. Public universities only report net price for in-state students.
2018$0$10,000$20,000$30,000$40,000$50,000
Chart explanation
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos
On the blue curve, we see how the net annual cost to attend Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos has changed over the years.
Context Schools
The shading shows the spread of the net price for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
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Outcomes
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Context and trends: Repayment Rate
How much progress do you think you'll be able to make towards paying down your college loans seven years after leaving school? In our research, we discovered that a surprisingly large number of students don't default on their loans, but also aren't making progress in paying down their principal amount. The percentages here count alumni who have decreased their loan amounts by at least $1.
Context and trends: are the loan default rates as small as possible?
The default rate is the percentage of students who are already delinquent on their loans within three years of leaving the school. If a school has a high default rate, that sends an alarm out that the students' educations are not sufficient to earn enough to repay those loans. Read below for details on the typical loan burden, and keep in mind that a low default rate may be more important than loan amounts in predicting your future success.
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Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos
On the blue curve, we see the percentage of alumni from Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos who have defaulted on their federal school loans within 3 years ending on the date shown.
Context Schools
The shading shows the spread of the 3-year loan default rate for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
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Loan burden
At Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos, 88% of full-time degree-seeking freshmen receive federal student loans, averaging $5,111 each in just the freshman year. We have much more details about the full loan burden students experience in our Cost and Financial Aid Section.
Context: Percentage of freshmen with federal loans
88%0%20%40%60%80%100%
Context: Average freshman federal loan amount
$5,111$2,000$4,000$6,000$8,000$10,000
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Alumni earnings compared to same-aged Americans
The blue curve shows the earnings of this school's alumni -- so a high curve indicates this school is setting its students up for success!
More information about earnings data

How might your earnings compare with other people your age? Opportunity Insights used IRS data to track almost every person born in the US in the years 1980 to 1991, and they ranked the mean (average) 2014 earnings of students who attended Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos in comparison to all people in the US the same age. Although this data is now a little old, the scope of this project was awesome and gives us a glimpse at alumni performance that we cannot find until a new study of this incredible magnitude is performed.

You might notice a little earnings dip at young ages for some of the top bachelor's institutions. This coincides with the years that many alumni may be in graduate school and earning less.

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Chart explanation
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos
In the blue curve, we see how the average earnings percentile for this school changes as its alumni age as compared to like-aged Americans without regard to their educational background.
Context Schools
The shading shows the spread of these average alumni earnings percentiles for context schools: dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools and light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
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Wealth mobility at Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos
We may wonder if, as a result of attending a given college, we will have a better chance for higher earnings. Opportunity Insights sought to answer this question by following the wealth story of every student for whom income information was available.
Learn more about the mobility study
How does wealth change after attendance?

Opportunity Insights studied groups of all children born in the US in the same year for each birth year from 1980 to 1991. This grouping included every single US child who had a valid SSN or ITIN (tax identification number) and could be linked to parents with non-negative income.

Family Income

The incomes of all families in a birth year group are measured when the child is 15-19 and these incomes are averaged. The calculated incomes from all families in the group were arranged from smallest to largest, and divided into five groups of equal size. On the left of the diagram, you can see the relative distribution of Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos's students between the family income divided into fifths formed by looking at the entire US group.

Individual Student Earnings

In 2014, all people from the same birth year were divided into a new set of five groups that were determined by their individual labor earnings for that year. The students from this birth year who primarily attended Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos between the ages of 19 and 22 were divided into these five groups, and the percent in each group is shown on the right of the diagram.

The diagram lets you see the proportion in each original income group who travel to each earnings group, and provides some insight into the likelihood of financial success after attendance.

If you'd like to understand the nitty gritty details of this interesting data, be sure to check out the well-written Opportunity Insights report by selecting SOURCES under the figure.

Below, we can see the percentage from each initial family wealth group who attend this college, and also the alumni's relative wealth later. Do students entering college from the bottom twenty percent of family income end up making it to a higher level? Do the top twenty percent stay at the top? Follow the colors, left to right, and see for yourself.
$24,300$45,100$72,900$110,300$900$18,500$35,200$55,800Lowest 20%Second-lowestMiddleSecond-highestHighest 20%Highest 20%Second-highestMiddleSecond-lowest Lowest 20%Family IncomeStudent Income
Classroom Experience
Student attention at Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos
Schools are required to report the ratio of students per instructor, but look for a small number of students for every full-time instructor as your best indicator of personal attention and a modern well-integrated curriculum.
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Full-time and long-term instructors at Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and to craft up-to-date courses and programs. Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos has 35% full-time instructors, and 68% of the context schools have a higher percentage of full-time instructors. Faculty with multi-year contracts provide additional stability and commitment to the school and its students.Within the full-time instructors at Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos, none have multi-year employment contracts. Of the context schools, only 31% have instructors with multi-year contracts.
Full-time instructors
35%
Long-term instructors
0%
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Faculty Diversity
Here's an opportunity to explore the faculty's diversity. For many schools, attracting a diverse teaching faculty can be a challenge. It's important to judge their success with the reality check of what their peer schools have accomplished.
Number of full-time instructors
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MultiracialHispanicPacific IslanderBlackWhite0246810Men0246810Women
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Housing
No Student Housing Available
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Activities and Services
Undergraduate services offered
  • Academic/career counseling services
  • Employment services for current students
  • Placement services for program completers
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Student Body
Study Types
All students are full-time. No students take distance education courses.
Full-time
100%
Online classes
0%
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Context: Student body size
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos enrolled 586 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is near the middle of the context schools.
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Undergraduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
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Undergraduate student race/origin
Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos reports that 78% of students are minority, which is more than 80% of the context schools. This school's 0 of international students is near the middle proportion of international students within the context schools.
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White
Black
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Context: Gender Balance
It is very difficult for many types of schools to achieve a gender balance, and this context is valuable in evaluating the balance at Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos.
18%82%0%20%40%60%80%100%MenWomen
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Context: Percentage of women
With 82% women students, Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos has a higher percentage of women than 68% of context schools.
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Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Pima Medical Institute - San Marcos compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
2%22%56%9%4%6%0%20%40%60%80%100%American IndianNot ReportedInternationalBlackPacific IslanderMultiracialAsianWhiteHispanic
Freshman residences

A high proportion of international and out-of-state students speaks to reputation and offers an opportunity for diverse interactions in and out of class.

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Student age distribution
The age distribution at a school can tell you a lot about its mission. If you're looking for a traditional undergraduate experience, you may prefer to see students who are mostly younger than 25 (lighter shades), but if you want support as a returning student, a large number of students 25 and older (darker shades) may better suit your needs.
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