2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Pre-Physician Assistant

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 43 pre-physician assistant students received their degree, making the major the most popular in the country.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 pre-physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality pre-physician assistant programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the pre-physician assistant program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Pre-Physician Assistant

#1

Wayne County Community College District

Detroit, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$5,060 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wayne County Community College District. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for an Associate list. WCCCD is located in Detroit, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 associates’s pre-physician assistant degrees to qualified students.

WCCCD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Pre-Physician Assistant Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $5,060 for associate degree pre-physician assistant students per year to attend Wayne County Community College District.

Read more about Pre-Physician Assistant at WCCCD

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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• 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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