2025 Best Physician Assistant Schools in New Jersey
4Colleges in New Jersey
211Physician Assistant Degrees Awarded
Physician Assistant is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #71 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of physician assistant. Combined, these schools handed out 211 degrees in physician assistant to qualified students.
Your choice of physician assistant school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for physician assistant schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Physician Assistant Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Physician Assistant in New Jersey
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the physician assistant degrees they offer, see the list below.
Rutgers University - New Brunswick is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in physician assistant. Rutgers New Brunswick is a fairly large public university located in the small city of New Brunswick. A Best Colleges rank of #74 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Rutgers New Brunswick is a great university overall.
There were roughly 92 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Rutgers New Brunswick in the most recent year we have data available.
Seton Hall University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in physician assistant. Seton Hall is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of South Orange. A Best Colleges rank of #283 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Seton Hall is a great university overall.
There were about 57 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Seton Hall in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat College of Saint Elizabeth if you want to pursue a degree in physician assistant. CSE is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Morristown. This college ranks 738th out of 2,152 colleges for overall quality nationwide.More information about a degree in physician assistant from College of Saint Elizabeth
Any student who is interested in physician assistant has to look into Monmouth University. Monmouth is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of West Long Branch. This university ranks 15th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 34 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Monmouth in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of physician assistant school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for physician assistant schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
