2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 12,000 people earned their degree in physician assistant, making the major the 71st most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 3,534 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their physician assistant program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree physician assistant students.
Top 1 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Southeast Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Miami Dade College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Miami, Florida, this large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s physician assistant students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
