Physician Assistant at Eastern Virginia Medical School

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

Eastern Virginia Medical School is located in Norfolk, Virginia and approximately 1,289 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.

Eastern Virginia Medical School Physician Assistant Degrees Available

Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant

Eastern Virginia Medical School Physician Assistant Rankings

Physician Assistant Student Demographics at Eastern Virginia Medical School

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the physician assistant majors at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

Eastern Virginia Medical School Physician Assistant Master’s Program

61% Women

30% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 39% of physician assistant master's degrees went to men and 61% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 24% men graduate in physician assistant each year. Eastern Virginia Medical School does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 15% more men than average.

Of the students who received a physician assistant master's degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School, 67% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the physician assistant master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 30% of degree recipients. That is 3% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School with a master's in physician assistant.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	45
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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 VA, the home state for Eastern Virginia Medical School.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Physician Assistants	2,510	$99,340

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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