Physician Assistant is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #71 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 7 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of physician assistant. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 315 degrees in physician assistant during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of physician assistant school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for physician assistant schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Physician Assistant Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the physician assistant degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student who is interested in physician assistant has to look into Northwestern University. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Evanston. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were about 36 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in physician assistant has to check out Rush University. Located in the large city of Chicago, Rush University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
There were approximately 28 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Rush University in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Midwestern University - Downers Grove if you wish to pursue a degree in physician assistant. Located in the large suburb of Downers Grove, Midwestern University - Downers Grove is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
There were approximately 83 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Midwestern University - Downers Grove in the most recent data year.
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in physician assistant. RFUMS is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of North Chicago.
There were about 66 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at RFUMS in the most recent data year.
Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 23rd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 39 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at SIUC in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the suburb of Joliet, University of Saint Francis is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #432 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means University of Saint Francis is a great university overall.
There were roughly 35 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at University of Saint Francis in the most recent data year.
Dominican U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of River Forest. This university ranks 30th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 28 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Dominican U in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of physician assistant school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for physician assistant schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
