Physician assistant

Largest PA programs by degrees conferred, 2024-25

This list orders 50 physician assistant programs by the PA degrees their institution conferred in 2024-25, as reported to IPEDS. IPEDS counts completions for the whole institution, not for a single campus or track, so a university with several ARC-PA accredited campuses shows the same total on each of its rows. Nova Southeastern University, for example, has a row for each of its Florida campuses, each carrying 241 PA degrees conferred in 2024-25. The Touro University rows in New York likewise each show 197. The figure describes institutional volume rather than the size of an entering class; where a program publishes its class size, the table shows it separately. Drexel University, for instance, conferred 121 PA degrees in 2024-25 and states a class size of 88. Pass rates appear only where this site has read an NCCPA or program-reported figure.

IPEDS completions 2024-25 (provisional), CIP 51.0912, counted once per institution, all campuses and tracks together; each row links to one of the institution's ARC-PA programs.
#	Institution	State	PA degrees conferred
1	University of Lynchburg	VA	310
2	Nova Southeastern University	FL	241
3	Lincoln Memorial University	FL	228
4	A T Still University of Health Sciences	AZ	219
5	Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences	MA	212
6	Touro University	NY	197
7	Shenandoah University	VA	159
8	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	PA	152
9	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	WA	152
10	Drexel University	PA	121
11	Thomas Jefferson University	PA	118
12	Pace University	NY	107
13	University of Maryland, Baltimore	MD	103
14	Touro University Nevada	NV	100
15	Yale University	CT	99
16	Barry University	FL	98
17	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	TX	93
18	Midwestern University-Glendale	AZ	92
19	Gannon University	PA	91
20	Western University of Health Sciences	CA	89
21	Medical University of South Carolina	SC	87
22	Duke University	NC	85
23	Arcadia University	PA	84
24	Bay Path University	MA	83
25	Midwestern University-Downers Grove	IL	83
26	The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston	TX	81
27	Wake Forest University	NC	80
28	Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine	PA	79
29	Southern Illinois University-Carbondale	IL	77
30	DeSales University	PA	73
31	Hofstra University	NY	72
32	Mercer University	GA	72
33	Marquette University	WI	71
34	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	71
35	Idaho State University	ID	70
36	King's College	PA	69
37	South University-Savannah	GA	68
38	Stony Brook University	NY	68
39	University of Oklahoma-Health Sciences Center	OK	68
40	Old Dominion University	VA	67
41	Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science	IL	67
42	St. John's University-New York	NY	67
43	Le Moyne College	NY	66
44	University of Utah	UT	66
45	Seton Hall University	NJ	64
46	Butler University	IN	63
47	High Point University	NC	62
48	Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center	TX	62
49	University of Nebraska Medical Center	NE	62
50	Franklin Pierce University	NH	61