2023 Most Popular 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in physician assistant. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in physician assistant.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

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

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

1

Oakwood University
Huntsville, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakwood University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Oakwood University is located in Huntsville, Alabama and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s physician assistant degrees to qualified students.

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 full report on Physician Assistant at Oakwood University

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 Most Well Attended Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school handed out 52 degrees to qualified bachelors’s physician assistant students in 2020-2021.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Physician Assistant at UK

• Most Popular 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.