Physician assistant · Master's

Yale University PA program: PANCE pass rate, cost and admission

At Yale University, 98% of the PA class of 2025 passed the PANCE on the first attempt, against 91% nationally. The program reports a class size of 40. IPEDS counts 99 PA degrees conferred by the institution in 2024-25.

New Haven, CT ARC-PA: Accreditation-Continued, next review July 2027 Checked Oct 2026

Listed by ARC-PA as: Yale University Physician Associate Program

PANCE score report, first-time takers

Source: NCCPA report posted by the program
Class of 2025
98%
Above national 5 of 5
First-time takers
40
National, class of 2025
91%
Classes shown
5
This programNational first-time rate
80%85%90%95%100%Class of 2021: 100%, national 93%, 39 takers100%2021Class of 2022: 94%, national 92%, 36 takers94%2022Class of 2023: 95%, national 92%, 39 takers95%2023Class of 2024: 94%, national 92%, 35 takers94%2024Class of 2025: 98%, national 91%, 40 takers98%2025
Table view
ClassProgramNationalTakers
2021100%93%39
202294%92%36
202395%92%39
202494%92%35
202598%91%40

Cost, size and outcomes

  • Tuition per yearProgram page, 2026-27, first year (PA1)$54,147
  • Class sizeProgram page, Class of 202840
  • PA degrees conferred by the institutionIPEDS completions, 2024-25 (provisional), CIP 51.091299
  • Median earnings, 1 year after completionCollege Scorecard, Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions, master's degree, graduates of 2020-21 and 2021-22$121,196
  • Median earnings, 4 years after completionCollege Scorecard, Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions, master's degree, graduates of 2017-18 and 2018-19$147,204
  • Median federal loan debtCollege Scorecard, Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions, master's degreeNot published
  • Physician assistants, median wage, ConnecticutBLS OEWS, May 2025, context only$139,860

What it asks of applicants

  • Application service and deadlineAs the program states it, 2026-27 cycleCASPA · September 1, 2026
  • Minimum overall GPA3.0 (cumulative science GPA)
  • Patient care hoursNot published
  • Program lengthNot published
  • Program startsAugust
  • Prerequisite coursesAs the program states it, Date not statedStatistics or Calculus; Human Anatomy; Human or Animal Physiology; Organic Chemistry or Biochemistry; Microbiology

Accreditation

  • StatusARC-PA list, fetched 2026-10-28Accreditation-Continued
  • First accreditedMarch 1975
  • Next accreditation reviewJuly 2027
  • Program websiteVisit

Nearby PA programs

Attrition by class, as the program posts it

ARC-PA attrition table from the program's own page, with the entering and graduating counts it prints. A table that prints attrition as a fraction (0.20) shows here as a percent (20%).
ClassEnteredGraduatedAttrition
202435350%
202540400%

What the numbers say

Yale's class of 2025 recorded a 98% first-time PANCE pass rate, 7 points clear of the 91% national rate for that year. In all 5 classes from 2021 to 2025 the program sat above the national figure, by margins of 2 to 7 points. The highest rate in that span came from the 39 first-time takers of 2021, who all passed for 100%. The rate settled at 94% in 2022 and in 2024, tied for the lowest of the period, and each time it recovered the next year, to 95% and then 98%. Yale reported 40 matriculants for its class of 2028, while IPEDS counts 99 PA degrees conferred by the university as a whole in 2024-25. The ARC-PA attrition table puts attrition for the class of 2025 at 0%. The 2026-27 budget lists tuition of $54,147 for the first year (PA1) alone, not the full program. Applicants file through CASPA along with Yale's supplementary application by September 1, 2026, for a cohort that begins classes in August 2027. A cumulative science GPA of at least 3.0 is required. Required math and science courses are statistics or calculus, human anatomy, human or animal physiology, organic chemistry or biochemistry, and microbiology. First accredited in March 1975, the program holds Accreditation-Continued status, and ARC-PA has its next review set for July 2027. In College Scorecard data, the median for graduates of Yale's allied health diagnostic, intervention and treatment master's field was $121,196 1 year after completion for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 cohorts.

Sources

  1. Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA): Entry Level Accredited Programs, fetched 28 Oct 2026
  2. medicine.yale.edu: Admissions | Physician Associate Program, fetched 29 Oct 2026
  3. medicine.yale.edu: Competencies, Graduation Rate & PANCE Pass Rate | Physician Associate Program, fetched 29 Oct 2026
  4. medicine.yale.edu: Admissions Statistics | Physician Associate Program, fetched 29 Oct 2026
  5. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): IPEDS Completions, awards by program and award level, 2024-25 (provisional release), 21 Jul 2026, fetched 26 Oct 2026
  6. U.S. Department of Education: College Scorecard, Most Recent Field of Study Data, 15 Oct 2026, fetched 26 Oct 2026
  7. medicine.yale.edu: Prerequisites | Physician Associate Program, fetched 29 Oct 2026
  8. medicine.yale.edu: PA Program Student Budgets | Physician Associate Program, fetched 29 Oct 2026
  9. National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), posted by the program: PANCE Exam Performance Summary Report for Yale University Physician Associate Program (program 1033), printed 9/22/2026, fetched 29 Oct 2026
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, state estimates, May 2025, 15 May 2026, fetched 26 Oct 2026