Physician Assistant at Pennsylvania College of Technology

If you are interested in studying physician assistant, you may want to check out the program at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Penn College is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and approximately 4,565 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Physician Assistant section at the bottom of this page.

Penn College Physician Assistant Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physician Assistant

Penn College Physician Assistant Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks physician assistant programs across the country. The following shows how Penn College performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The physician assistant major at Penn College is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Physician Assistant. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	5
Best Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	6

Physician Assistant Student Demographics at Penn College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the physician assistant majors at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Penn College Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Program

The physician assistant program at Penn College awarded 22 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 41% of these degrees went to men with the other 59% going to women. The typical physician assistant bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% men. So male students are more repesented at Penn College since its program graduates 17% more men than average.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in physician assistant at Penn College are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Pennsylvania College of Technology with a bachelor's in physician assistant.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	18
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Penn College also has a doctoral program available in physician assistant. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic)
• Surgical Technology
• Radiologic Technology

Careers That Physician Assistant Grads May Go Into

A degree in physician assistant can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Health Specialties Professors	12,420	$95,160
Physician Assistants	6,650	$98,510

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By George Chriss under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.