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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pre-Physician Assistant (With Aid)

2 Ranked Colleges
30 Degrees Awarded
$19,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 43 pre-physician assistant students received their degree, making the major the most popular in the country.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 pre-physician assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in pre-physician assistant. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality pre-physician assistant programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the pre-physician assistant program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree pre-physician assistant students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pre-Physician Assistant (With Aid)

#1

College of Saint Mary

Omaha, Nebraska
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, College of Saint Mary landed the #1 spot on the list. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s pre-physician assistant degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

Saint Mary also took the #1 spot in our “Best Pre-Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for College of Saint Mary is $14,325 for Bachelor’s Degree Pre-Physician Assistant students with aid.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Pre-Physician Assistant at Saint Mary

#2

Seton Hill University

Greensburg, Pennsylvania
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Seton Hill University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Pre-Physician Assistant Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Seton Hill is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. It awarded 22 bachelors’s pre-physician assistant degrees in 2019-2020.

Seton Hill not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Pre-Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Seton Hill University is $23,620 for bachelor’s degree pre-physician assistant students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Seton Hill University Pre-Physician Assistant Report

Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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