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Physician Assistant at Marist College

Physician Assistant at Marist College

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

Marist is located in Poughkeepsie, New York and approximately 6,600 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.

Marist Physician Assistant Degrees Available

  • Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant

Marist Physician Assistant Rankings

Physician Assistant Student Demographics at Marist

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

Marist Physician Assistant Master’s Program

78% Women
29% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 22% of physician assistant master's degrees went to men and 78% went to women.

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Of the students who received a physician assistant master's degree from Marist, 71% 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 29% of degree recipients. That is 2% better than the national average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 4
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 35
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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 Marist 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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