2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Physician Assistant is the 71st most popular major in the country with 11,351 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 936 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in physician assistant. That schools that top this list have a program in physician assistant in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Far Western US Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Far Western US Region list. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s physician assistant degrees to 29 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Washington - Seattle Campus Physician Assistant Report

2

Pacific University
Forest Grove, Oregon

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pacific University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Far Western US Region. This small school is located in Forest Grove, Oregon, and it awarded 57 bachelors’s physician assistant degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Pacific Physician Assistant Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.