The 50 colleges that score highest for Pre-physician assistant on public federal data: selectivity, graduate earnings, program size, academic strength and graduate depth. It is a starting point for your research, not a judgment of quality.
50 colleges · each name links to its page, with sources · data snapshot October 2, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
How we rank programs · showing the top 50 of 50 core colleges ranked, those with enough graduates and earnings data · All top-programs lists
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| Rank | College | State | What we measured | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Florida | FL | Median earnings $74,152 · 192 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 2 | George Washington University | DC | Median earnings $93,521 (field-wide) · 16 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 3 | Stony Brook University | NY | Median earnings $78,216 · 465 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 4 | Boston University | MA | Median earnings $78,431 · 158 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 5 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | NC | Median earnings $83,066 (field-wide) · 11 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 6 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | NJ | Median earnings $76,619 · 38 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 7 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | MI | Median earnings $78,413 (field-wide) · 13 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 8 | University of South Florida | FL | Median earnings $56,452 · 1,092 graduates last year · 11% of the school's degrees | |
| 9 | University of Miami | FL | Median earnings $66,064 · 146 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 10 | Rice University | TX | Median earnings $89,718 (college-wide) · 30 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 11 | Texas A&M University-College Station | TX | Median earnings $69,815 · 386 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 12 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | PA | Median earnings $54,488 · 49 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 13 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | IL | Median earnings $69,195 · 150 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 14 | The University of Texas at Austin | TX | Median earnings $68,590 (field-wide) · 10 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 15 | University of Central Florida | FL | Median earnings $56,148 · 923 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 16 | Florida State University | FL | Median earnings $57,647 · 165 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 17 | University of Notre Dame | IN | Median earnings $58,126 · 88 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 18 | Baylor University | TX | Median earnings $68,460 · 216 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 19 | Tulane University of Louisiana | LA | Median earnings $47,791 · 23 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 20 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | OH | Median earnings $68,969 · 89 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 21 | University of South Carolina-Columbia | SC | Median earnings $61,423 · 14 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 22 | University of Dayton | OH | Median earnings $76,475 · 191 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 23 | University of Missouri-Columbia | MO | Median earnings $70,009 · 578 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 24 | University of Connecticut | CT | Median earnings $80,191 · 16 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 25 | University of Delaware | DE | Median earnings $95,632 · 161 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 26 | Drexel University | PA | Median earnings $95,081 · 89 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 27 | Saint Louis University | MO | Median earnings $77,671 · 83 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 28 | Hofstra University | NY | Median earnings $88,238 · 113 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 29 | Rochester Institute of Technology | NY | Median earnings $100,680 · 60 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 30 | Thomas Jefferson University | PA | Median earnings $83,368 · 273 graduates last year · 27% of the school's degrees | |
| 31 | Chapman University | CA | Median earnings $72,529 (field-wide) · 80 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 32 | Touro University | NY | Median earnings $135,742 · 253 graduates last year · 23% of the school's degrees | |
| 33 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | NY | Median earnings $102,051 (college-wide) · 14 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 34 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | MN | Median earnings $74,079 · 50 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 35 | Nova Southeastern University | FL | Median earnings $83,086 · 70 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 36 | Texas Christian University | TX | Median earnings $84,086 (field-wide) · 17 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 37 | University of Iowa | IA | Median earnings $68,601 · 52 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 38 | Temple University | PA | Median earnings $59,764 · 185 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 39 | University of Cincinnati-Main Campus | OH | Median earnings $89,915 · 68 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 40 | Creighton University | NE | Median earnings $83,772 (field-wide) · 23 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 41 | The University of Tampa | FL | Median earnings $72,531 · 152 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 42 | University of Houston | TX | Median earnings $54,471 · 303 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 43 | California State University-Long Beach | CA | Median earnings $51,580 · 225 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 44 | University of Vermont | VT | Median earnings $68,482 · 46 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 45 | Oregon State University | OR | Median earnings $55,245 · 147 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 46 | University of Kentucky | KY | Median earnings $82,533 · 121 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 47 | The University of Texas at Dallas | TX | Median earnings $65,617 · 193 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 48 | University of North Carolina Wilmington | NC | Median earnings $81,591 (field-wide) · 38 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 49 | Indiana University-Indianapolis | IN | Median earnings $80,577 · 70 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 50 | University of Illinois Chicago | IL | Median earnings $50,429 · 231 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees |
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