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.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of physician assistant. Combined, these schools handed out 160 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. 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.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Physician Assistant Schools in Kentucky list to help you make the college decision.
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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.
University of Kentucky is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in physician assistant. UK is a very large public university located in the large city of Lexington. A Best Colleges rank of #220 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were roughly 55 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in physician assistant needs to look into Sullivan University. Sullivan University is a small private for-profit university located in the city of Louisville. This university ranks 4th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 48 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Sullivan University in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of the Cumberlands if you want to pursue a degree in physician assistant. Cumberlands is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the remote town of Williamsburg. This university ranks 9th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 57 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Cumberlands 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. 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.
