Physician Assistant
Add ComparisonIn 2021, the locations with the highest concentration of Physician Assistant degree recipients are New York, NY, Boston, MA, and Lynchburg, VA. In 2021, the locations with a relatively high number of Physician Assistant degree recipients are Short Pump, VA, East Whittier, CA, and Philippi, WV. The most common degree awarded to students studying Physician Assistant is a masters degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Physician Assistant and the types of students that study this field. University of Lynchburg awards the most degrees in Physician Assistant in the US, having also the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Physician Assistant, followed by South University-Richmond.
Tuition costs for Physician Assistant majors are, on average, $7,890 for in-state public colleges, and $34,934 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Physician Assistant programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (158 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (7,748 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Physician Assistant, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (7,748 completions in 2021).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Physician Assistant programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
University of Lynchburg has the most Physician Assistant degree recipients, with 324 degrees awarded in 2021.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Physician Assistant.
Out of all institutions that offer Physician Assistant programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, University of Lynchburg has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Physician Assistant, with 32.7%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Physician Assistant by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Physician Assistant.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Health graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Health majors is $81,847 and the most common occupations are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
The industry that employs the most Health majors is General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers.
The average salary for Health majors is $81,847 and the most common occupations are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Health majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Health majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Health majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Health majors, by number of employees, are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Health majors working as Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives, Nurse anesthetists, and Audiologists.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Health majors are Surgeons, Physicians, and Chief executives & legislators.
The number of Health graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.68%, from 4.3M in 2020 to 4.46M in 2021.
The largest single share of Health graduates go on to work as Registered nurses (36.7%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Health by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Health majors, by number of employees, are General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, Outpatient care centers, and Elementary & secondary schools.
The highest paying industries of Health majors, by average wage, are Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers, Farm supplies merchant wholesalers, and Pharmaceutical & medicine manufacturing.
The number of Health graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.68%, from 4.3M in 2020 to 4.46M in 2021.
The industry which employs the most Health graduates by share is General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, followed by Outpatient care centers. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Health.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Health majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Health majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Health. The most common ages of employees with this major are 30 and 31 years old, which represent 2.98% and 2.93% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Physician Assistant are Masters Degree, Bachelors Degree, and Professional Doctorate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Health are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Physician Assistant.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Physician Assistant for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Masters Degree recipients in Physician Assistant.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Philippines that hold Health degrees (5.11 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Philippines (199,567 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Physician Assistant field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Physician Assistant majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Physician Assistant majors need more than the average amount of Equipment Maintenance, Repairing, Equipment Selection, Troubleshooting, Science, Operation and Control, Operation Monitoring, Quality Control Analysis, Time Management, Mathematics, Complex Problem Solving, Operations Analysis, Negotiation, Writing, Judgment and Decision Making, Instructing, Coordination, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Learning Strategies, Speaking, Persuasion, Critical Thinking, Management of Personnel Resources, Active Learning, Social Perceptiveness, Management of Financial Resources, Service Orientation, Monitoring, Management of Material Resources, Systems Evaluation, Systems Analysis, Technology Design, Programming, and Installation.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Physician Assistant majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Equipment Maintenance is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Speaking, Writing, Active Listening, Instructing, Critical Thinking, Learning Strategies, Active Learning, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Time Management, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Science, Coordination, Persuasion, Mathematics, Negotiation, Service Orientation, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Management of Personnel Resources, Operations Analysis, Quality Control Analysis, Operation Monitoring, Management of Material Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, Repairing, Equipment Selection, Operation and Control, Technology Design, Programming, and Installation are the three most important skills for people in the field.
