2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$26,800
Avg Cost*
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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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 370 physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physician assistant. That schools that top this list have a program in physician assistant in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree physician assistant students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Lynchburg landed the #1 spot on the list. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s physician assistant degrees to 346 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physician Assistant Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lincoln Memorial University landed the #2 spot on the list. LMU is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Harrogate, Tennessee. It awarded 24 doctorate’s physician assistant degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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.
