2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Physician Assistant Studies

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDIES DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Very few undergrads decide to major in physician assistant studies. On average, each subject confers roughly 6,000 annual four-year degrees; last spring, 538 people completed four-year degrees in physician assistant studies, making it the 272nd most popular subject nationwide. 60 of those degrees were granted at a single college, St John's University-New York, and 228 of those alumni came out of schools from New York.

It will potentially be difficult to decide the right school, because undergraduate degrees in physician assistant studies are available at 32 institutions in the US. Undergrad degrees in the average field are awarded at 6 times more colleges than degrees in physician assistant studies, making it the 334th most commonly available subject in the United States of America.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 5% of degrees in physician assistant studies last May were undergrad degrees; 95% were advanced degrees. Physician assistant studies is the 24th most popular grad degree in the country, with 9,360 degrees awarded. To put that in context, graduate degrees in physician assistant studies are 3.4 times more popular among master's & doctor's students than the average focus.

In Total, 9,898 students received a bachelor's or higher in physician assistant studies last spring.

ONLINE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDIES DEGREES

316 of those 9,898 students (3.2%) came out of totally remote programs - 0 undergrads and 316 master's or doctor's students. It is presently the 74th most in-demand online grad degree, and 48.7% below the US average (616).

PARTIALLY ONLINE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDIES DEGREES

• Physician assistant studies is the 276th most pursued partially online four-year degree in the country
• Physician assistant studies is the 299th most universally available partially online four-year degree nationally
• Last year, 1,470 people earned a bachelor's or higher in physician assistant studies partially online
• 4.93% of D'Youville College's​ last undergraduate class studied physician assistant studies partially online, higher than any other college in the United States
• Last spring, 9,360 students completed partially online advanced degrees in physician assistant studies
• The typical major is available partially online at around 154 institutions

IN-PERSON PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDIES DEGREES

• Physician assistant studies is the 261st most sought out in-person college degree in America
• Undergrad degrees in physician assistant studies are offered completely in-person at 1 institutions coast-to-coast
• Last May, 8,043 people received a bachelor's or higher in physician assistant studies in-person
• SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University's​ last undergraduate class had the most dense population of in-person physician assistant studies majors in the nation (16.83%)
• 5% of last year's in-person degrees in physician assistant studies were undergrad degrees; 95% were grad degrees
• On average, each course of study has around 4,293 bachelor's degrees a year fully in-person