Physician Assistant at Emory and Henry College

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

Emory & Henry College is located in Emory, Virginia and approximately 1,230 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.

Emory & Henry College Physician Assistant Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant

Emory & Henry College Physician Assistant Rankings

Physician Assistant Student Demographics at Emory & Henry College

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

Emory & Henry College Physician Assistant Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 27% of physician assistant master's degrees went to men and 73% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 24% men graduate in physician assistant each year. Emory & Henry College does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 3% more men than average.

Of the students who received a physician assistant master's degree from Emory & Henry College, 60% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the physician assistant master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 37% of degree recipients. That is 10% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	18
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Athletic Training

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 Emory and Henry College.

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Jediah999 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.