2022 Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 3,153 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality physician assistant programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the physician assistant program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree physician assistant students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Southeast Region

#1

Oakwood University

Huntsville, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$24,274 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oakwood University landed the #1 spot on the list. Huntsville, Alabama is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s physician assistant degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree physician assistant students list, Oakwood has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $24,274 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Physician Assistant students per year to attend Oakwood.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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