Physician Assistant at Wagner College

If you plan to study physician assistant, take a look at what Wagner College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Wagner is located in Staten Island, New York and has a total student population of 2,070.

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.

Wagner Physician Assistant Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physician Assistant

Wagner Physician Assistant Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the physician assistant progam at Wagner compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 Wagner 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	1
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Most Popular Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	1
Most Focused Physician Assistant Trade Schools	1
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Most Popular Physician Assistant Trade Schools	2
Best Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	2
Best Physician Assistant Trade Schools	3
Best Value Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Schools	5
Best Value Physician Assistant Schools	6

Physician Assistant Student Demographics at Wagner

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

Wagner Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Program

Of the 72 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in physician assistant from Wagner in 2021, 18% were men and 82% were women.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in physician assistant at Wagner are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	50
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

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 NY, the home state for Wagner College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Health Specialties Professors	22,170	$127,230
Physician Assistants	12,060	$117,000

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 Parent5446 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.