2025 Best Physician Assistant Schools in North Carolina
8Colleges in North Carolina
501Physician 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 looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Physician Assistant Schools in North Carolina ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 501 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. 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.
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.
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 North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Physician Assistant in North Carolina
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.
Duke University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in physician assistant. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Durham. A Best Colleges rank of #7 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Duke is a great university overall.
There were roughly 89 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Duke in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in physician assistant needs to look into University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Located in the small city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #38 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were roughly 17 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent data year.
Elon University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in physician assistant. Elon is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Elon. A Best Colleges rank of #190 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Elon is a great university overall.
There were approximately 39 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Elon in the most recent data year.
Pfeiffer University is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in physician assistant. Located in the rural area of Misenheimer, Pfeiffer University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 41st out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.More information about a degree in physician assistant from Pfeiffer University
Located in the town of Buies Creek, Campbell is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 49th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 53 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Campbell in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of Greenville, ECU is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #275 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means ECU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 33 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at ECU in the most recent data year.
Located in the rural area of Boiling Springs, Gardner - Webb is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 30th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 37 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Gardner - Webb in the most recent year we have data available.
Methodist is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Fayetteville. This university ranks 56th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 39 physician assistant students who graduated with this degree at Methodist 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).
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. 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.
