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Physician Assistant at Northern Arizona University

Physician Assistant at Northern Arizona University

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

NAU is located in Flagstaff, Arizona and has a total student population of 29,566.

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.

NAU Physician Assistant Degrees Available

  • Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant

NAU Physician Assistant Rankings

Physician Assistant Student Demographics at NAU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the physician assistant majors at Northern Arizona University.

NAU Physician Assistant Master’s Program

78% Women
53% 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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In the physician assistant master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 53% of degree recipients. That is 26% better than the national average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 6
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 23
White 28
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

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 AZ, the home state for Northern Arizona University.

Occupation Jobs in AZ Average Salary in AZ
Health Specialties Professors 3,660 $133,640
Physician Assistants 2,100 $101,590

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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