2022 Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 10,746 people earned their degree in physician assistant, making the major the 76th most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 54 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in physician assistant. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree physician assistant students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant

#1

Miami Dade College

Miami, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$4,842 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Miami Dade College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate list. MDC is a large school located in Miami, Florida that handed out 53 associates’s physician assistant degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our associate degree physician assistant students list, MDC has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Physician Assistant Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Miami Dade College is $4,842 for Associate Degree Physician Assistant students.

Read more about Physician Assistant at Miami Dade College

#2

Dodge City Community College

Dodge City, Kansas

#2 in overall quality

$4,506 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Dodge City Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Dodge City Community College is located in Dodge City, Kansas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 associates’s physician assistant degrees to qualified students.

Dodge City Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Physician Assistant Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $4,506 for associate degree physician assistant students per year to attend Dodge City Community College.

Read more about Physician Assistant at Dodge City Community College

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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