2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Physician Assistant is the 76th most popular major in the country with 10,746 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 728 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great physician assistant programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the physician assistant program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Baylor University

Waco, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$36,936 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s physician assistant degrees to 34 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region doctor’s degree physician assistant students with aid list, Baylor has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Physician Assistant Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Baylor are $36,936, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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