2022 Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Master’s in Louisiana

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Master’s in Louisiana” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across Louisiana, there were 87 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 87 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,288 and $46,372 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Master’s in Louisiana” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in physician assistant. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent physician assistant programs, but they also 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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Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Master’s in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Master’s in Louisiana.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in Louisiana

#1

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport

Shreveport, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$26,960 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Master’s in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport landed the #1 spot on the list. LSU Health - Shreveport is a small public school situated in Shreveport, Louisiana. It awarded 35 masters’s physician assistant degrees in 2019-2020.

LSU Health - Shreveport did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physician Assistant Master’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at LSU Health - Shreveport are $26,960, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

#2 in overall quality

$25,362 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Master’s in Louisiana list. LSU Health - New Orleans is a small school located in New Orleans, Louisiana that handed out 28 masters’s physician assistant degrees in 2019-2020.

LSU Health - New Orleans did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Physician Assistant Master’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at LSU Health - New Orleans are $25,362, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#3

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#3 in overall quality

$30,153 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Physician Assistant Schools for a Master’s in Louisiana. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s physician assistant degrees to 24 students in 2019-2020.

FranU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Physician Assistant Master’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University are $30,153, 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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