2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the New England 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 Doctorate in the New England 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 New England region, there were 871 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,889 and $109,372 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. 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 a Doctorate in the New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree physician assistant students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the New England Region

#1

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$23,280 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s physician assistant degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

MCPHS University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Physician Assistant Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences are $23,280.

Read full report on Physician Assistant at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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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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