Program Data 
Physician Assistant Studies (MS)

Acceptance rates, admission indicators, student attrition and other data for the Physician Assistant Studies program at PCOM's Philadelphia, PA and Suwanee, GA locations is provided below.

Contents

• Acceptance and Matriculation
• Student Attrition
• Demographics
• Financial Aid and Average Indebtedness
• Mean Time to Completion

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Acceptance and Matriculation

	Number of Applications	Number Accepted	Total Matriculated
[2017]	2011	79	55
[2018]	2004	88	59
[2019]	2037	86	60
[2020]	2693	80	59
[2021]	3161	108	55
[2022]	2494	112	60
[2023*]	2619	117	61

*Cumulative undergraduate GPA of 2023 entering class (based on 4.0 scale) = 3.81

 

	Number of Applications	Number Accepted	Total Matriculated
[2017]	1044	37	20
[2018]	1044	42	26
[2019]	1055	58	32
[2020]	1377	51	32
[2021]	1977	59	32
[2022]	1643	60	32
[2023*]	1652	82	34

*Cumulative undergraduate GPA of 2023 entering class (based on 4.0 scale) = 3.80

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Student Attrition

	Graduated Classes
	Class of 2023	Class of 2022	Class of 2021
Maximum entering class size (as approved by ARC-PA)	110	110	110
Entering class size	93	93	92
Graduates	77	84	87
* Attrition rate	17.2	9.7	5.4
**Graduation rate	82.8	90.3	94.6

*Attrition rate calculation: Number of students who attritted from cohort divided by the entering class size.

**Graduation rate: Number of cohort graduates divided by the entering class size.

Comments:

• Attrition in this table includes students that may have taken a leave of absence or decelerated from their original cohort, and ultimately may have completed the program.
• For the new students that entered into the class of 2021, 3.3% experienced attrition while 96.7% ultimately completed the program.
• For the new students that entered into the class of 2022, 6.6% experienced attrition while 93.4% ultimately completed the program.
• For the new students that entered into the class of 2023, 11.5% experienced attrition while 88.5% ultimately completed the program.

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Demographics

 

 

 

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Financial Aid and Average Indebtedness

	PCOM	PCOM Georgia
Percentage of Students Receiving Financial Aid in Academic Year 2022-2023	85	85
Average Indebtedness of Graduates in Academic Year 2022-2023	$107,244	$107,876

Tuition Cost Per Credit: View Tuition Rate Tables

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Mean Time to Completion

Class start date of 2021, general program length = 26 months

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