2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Great Lakes Region

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,461 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in physician assistant. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their physician assistant program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Great Lakes Region

1

Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cleveland State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region. Cleveland State University is a public institution located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Cleveland State University Physician Assistant Report

2

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Kalamazoo, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s physician assistant degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Physician Assistant at WMU

3

Carroll University
Waukesha, Wisconsin

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Carroll University landed the #3 spot on the list. Waukesha, Wisconsin is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s physician assistant degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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3

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #3 spot on the list. SIUC is a public institution located in Carbondale, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 39 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Physician Assistant at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

• 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.