2025 Best Physician Assistant Schools in Wisconsin
4Colleges in Wisconsin
210Physician Assistant Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in physician assistant, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #71 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for physician assistant students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 210 degrees in physician assistant to qualified students.
The physician assistant program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Physician Assistant rankings. For our Best Overall Physician Assistant School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Schools in Wisconsin list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The schools below may not offer all types of physician assistant degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's hard to beat Marquette University if you wish to pursue a degree in physician assistant. Marquette is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Milwaukee. A Best Colleges rank of #114 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Marquette is a great university overall.
There were roughly 77 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Marquette in the most recent data year.
University of Wisconsin - Madison is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in physician assistant. UW - Madison is a very large public university located in the large city of Madison. A Best Colleges rank of #40 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UW - Madison is a great university overall.
There were approximately 52 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in physician assistant needs to check out University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. UW - La Crosse is a large public university located in the small city of La Crosse. This university ranks 8th out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were about 28 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at UW - La Crosse in the most recent data year.
Carroll University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in physician assistant. Located in the city of Waukesha, Carroll U is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 15th out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were approximately 24 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Carroll U in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The physician assistant program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Physician Assistant rankings. For our Best Overall Physician Assistant School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
