2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 3,149 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physician assistant. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in physician assistant.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Southeast Region

1

Oakwood University
Huntsville, Alabama

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oakwood University landed the #1 spot on the list. Oakwood is a private not-for-profit institution located in Huntsville, Alabama. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Physician Assistant at Oakwood

2

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region. UK is a large public school situated in Lexington, Kentucky. It awarded 52 bachelors’s physician assistant degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Physician Assistant at UK

• 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.