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
[2020]	2693	80	59
[2021]	3161	108	55
[2022]	2494	112	60
[2023*]	2619	117	61
[2024]	2661	124	62

*Cumulative undergraduate GPA of 2024 entering class (based on 4.0 scale) = 3.8

 

	Number of Applications	Number Accepted	Total Matriculated
[2020]	1377	51	32
[2021]	1977	59	32
[2022]	1643	60	32
[2023*]	1652	82	34
[2024]	1803	87	35

*Cumulative undergraduate GPA of 2024 entering class (based on 4.0 scale) = 3.69

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Student Attrition

	Graduated Classes
	Class of 2024	Class of 2023	Class of 2022
Program Maximum Entering Class Size (as approved by ARC-PA)	110	110	110
Entering class size	92	85	90
Graduates	78	78	85
* Attrition rate	10.7	8.2	5.6
**Graduation rate	84.8	91.8	94.4

	Graduated Classes
	Class of 2024	Class of 2023	Class of 2022
Philadelphia Maximum Entering Class Size (as approved by ARC-PA)	70	70	70
Entering class size	60	55	59
Graduates	48	50	53
* Attrition rate	20	9.1	10.0
**Graduation rate	80	90.9	89.8

	Graduated Classes
	Class of 2024	Class of 2023	Class of 2022
Georgia Maximum Entering Class Size (as approved by ARC-PA)	40	40	40
Entering class size	32	32	32
Graduates	30	27	31
* Attrition rate	6.3	15.6	3.1
**Graduation rate	93.7	84.4	96.9

*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.

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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 2023-2024	85.28	84.21
Average Indebtedness of Graduates in Academic Year 2023-2024	$110,300	$96,066

Tuition Cost Per Credit: View Tuition Rate Tables

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Mean Time to Completion

Class start date of 2022, general program length = 26 months

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