2025 Best Physician Assistant Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
353Doctor's Degrees
Ranked #61 in popularity, physician assistant is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for physician assistant students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 353 doctor's degrees in physician assistant to qualified students.
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on physician assistant students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other physician assistant students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized physician assistant related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for physician assistant students working on their doctor's degree.
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 Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Physician Assistant in the Southeast Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for physician assistant students seeking a a doctor's degree.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Physician Assistant
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.