2025 Best Physician Assistant Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
145Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in physician assistant, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #403 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for physician assistant students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 145 bachelor's degrees in physician assistant to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Physician Assistant School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The physician assistant bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
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 bachelor'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for physician assistant students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Physician Assistant Bachelor's Degree Schools in New York list, to help you choose the best school for you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Physician Assistant in New York
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in physician assistant.
Top New York Schools for a Bachelor's 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.