2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in Kansas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in Kansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Kansas, there were 46 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 46 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,354 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in Kansas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in Kansas

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in Kansas

1

Wichita State University
Wichita, Kansas

#4 overall quality in Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wichita State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in Kansas list. Located in Wichita, Kansas, this fairly large public school awarded 46 diplomas to qualified masters’s physician assistant students in 2020-2021.

Full WSU Physician Assistant Report

2

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

#2 overall quality in Kansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Manhattan, Kansas, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s physician assistant students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full K -State 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

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.