It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Southern New Hampshire University's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (North), 131. Its tuition and fees are $30,766 (2015-16).
Dental Assistants make an average of $36,660 annually in California, with the top end of the spectrum around $45,000, and the lower end around $26,800. Whether your at the top end of the spectrum or the lower depends on the list above.
Half of the approximately 296,810 dental assistants in the United States earn between $13.44 and $19.62 an hour -- and salaries of between $27,950 and $40,820 per year.ccording to the May 2011 statistics from the BLS, over 90 percent of dental assistants are employed in dentists' offices and make an average of $34,710 a year.