2023 Best Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
31
Degrees Awarded
$34,100
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Physician Assistant for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Physician Assistant is the 71st most popular major in the country with 11,351 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 918 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality physician assistant programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the physician assistant program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Physician Assistant for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree vets studying physician assistant.
Top 1 Best Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Springfield College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Physician Assistant for a Bachelor’s. Springfield College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Springfield College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list.Of the 3,068 students enrolled at Springfield College, 1 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Springfield College]](/colleges/springfield-college/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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