2024 Best Physician Assistant Schools in South Carolina
3Colleges in South Carolina
175Physician Assistant Degrees Awarded
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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in South Carolina to determine which ones were the best for physician assistant students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 175 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.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Physician Assistant Schools in South Carolina list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Physician Assistant in South Carolina
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.
Medical University of South Carolina is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in physician assistant. Located in the medium-sized city of Charleston, MUSC is a public university with a small student population.
There were roughly 58 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at MUSC in the most recent data year.
University of South Carolina - Columbia is a good option for students interested in a degree in physician assistant. UofSC is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Columbia. A Best Colleges rank of #152 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UofSC is a great university overall.
There were roughly 29 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at UofSC in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Charleston Southern University if you want to pursue a degree in physician assistant. CSU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Charleston. This university ranks 20th out of 44 colleges for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were approximately 29 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at CSU in the most recent year we have data available.
Francis Marion University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in physician assistant. Located in the suburb of Florence, Francis Marion University is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 38th out of 44 colleges for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were roughly 30 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Francis Marion University 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.
