2022 Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 43 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, pre-physician assistant is the most popular major in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 pre-physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in pre-physician assistant. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent pre-physician assistant programs, but they also cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pre-Physician Assistant

#1

College of Saint Mary

Omaha, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$14,325 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Saint Mary. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s list. College of Saint Mary is a small school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 8 bachelors’s pre-physician assistant degrees in 2019-2020.

Saint Mary did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Pre-Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $14,325 for bachelor’s degree pre-physician assistant students per year to attend College of Saint Mary.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full College of Saint Mary Pre-Physician Assistant Report

#2

Seton Hill University

Greensburg, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$23,620 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Seton Hill University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s. Seton Hill University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Seton Hill, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Pre-Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Seton Hill is $23,620 for bachelor’s degree pre-physician assistant students.

The low student loan default rate of 4.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Seton Hill University Pre-Physician Assistant Report

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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