If you pursue a degree in physician assistant, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #71 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Physician Assistant Schools in Kentucky ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 121 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. For our Best Overall Physician Assistant School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that 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 Kentucky list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of physician assistant degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Kentucky is a great decision for students interested in a degree in physician assistant. UK is a very large public university located in the city of Lexington. A Best Colleges rank of #230 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were approximately 52 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in physician assistant has to check out Sullivan University. Sullivan University is a small private for-profit university located in the large city of Louisville. This university ranks 11th out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 41 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Sullivan University in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat University of the Cumberlands if you want to pursue a degree in physician assistant. Cumberlands is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the town of Williamsburg. This university ranks 4th out of 38 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 28 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Cumberlands in the most recent data year.
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. For our Best Overall Physician Assistant School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
