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 looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Physician Assistant Schools in Iowa ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 153 degrees in physician assistant to qualified students.
The physician assistant program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Physician Assistant rankings. 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.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Iowa list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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 needs to take a look at University of Iowa. Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #84 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Iowa is a great university overall.
There were about 48 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Iowa in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in physician assistant needs to take a look at Saint Ambrose University. St. Ambrose University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Davenport. This university ranks 10th out of 40 schools for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were about 30 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at St. Ambrose University in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in physician assistant has to check out Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center. Located in the medium-sized city of Des Moines, Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
There were about 49 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine in the most recent data year.
University of Dubuque is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in physician assistant. UD is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Dubuque. This university ranks 33rd out of 40 colleges for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were about 26 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at UD 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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The physician assistant program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Physician Assistant rankings. 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.
