2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
310
Degrees Awarded
$26,800
Avg Cost*
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In 2020-2021, 11,351 people earned their degree in physician assistant, making the major the 71st most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 3,149 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 310 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree physician assistant students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Lynchburg. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region list. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s physician assistant degrees to 283 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Lynchburg Physician Assistant Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lincoln Memorial University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Harrogate, Tennessee, and it awarded 27 doctorate’s physician assistant degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Lincoln Memorial University Physician Assistant Report
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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
- *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.
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