2022 Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Physician Assistant in the Southeast Region

A doctor's degree in physician assistant is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #110 out of 815 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many colleges that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2022 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the most popular for physician assistant students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 341 doctor's degrees in physician assistant to qualified students.

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Most Popular Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Physician Assistant in the Southeast Region

Below you'll see a list of the most popular colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in physician assistant.

Most Well Attended Schools for Physician Assistant Students Working on Their Doctorate

1

University of Lynchburg
Lynchburg, VA

284 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#1 Most Popular In VA

#1 Best Quality In VA

University of Lynchburg is one of the most popular schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in physician assistant. Located in the small city of Lynchburg, Lynchburg is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #1 in quality for doctor's degrees in physician assistant in Virginia. More information about a doctorate in physician assistant from University of Lynchburg

2

Lincoln Memorial University
Harrogate, TN

57 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#1 Most Popular In TN

#1 Best Quality In TN

Lincoln Memorial University is one of the most popular schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in physician assistant. LMU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the distant town of Harrogate. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #1 in quality for doctor's degrees in physician assistant in Tennessee. More information about a doctorate in physician assistant from Lincoln Memorial University

 

Best Physician Assistant Colleges by State

Explore the most popular physician assistant schools for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Virginia	176	137
Tennessee	142	0

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Notes and References

• 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.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.