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Accreditation

The PA program curricula of the ÌÇÐÄVLOGÍøÒ³°æ Physician Assistant Program is accredited by the .

The ÌÇÐÄVLOGÍøÒ³°æ PA Program first-time PANCE pass rate for the Class of 2023 is 86%. Please view the PANCE Five Year First Time Taker Summary Report and the PANCE Exam Performance Summary Report for the past five years below.

Accreditation Status

The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued status to the ÌÇÐÄVLOGÍøÒ³°æ Physician Assistant Program sponsored by ÌÇÐÄVLOGÍøÒ³°æ University. Accreditation-Continued is an accreditation status granted when a currently accredited program is in compliance with the ARC-PA Standards.

Accreditation remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the Standards. The approximate date for the next validation review of the program by the ARC-PA will be March 2027. The review date is contingent upon continued compliance with the Accreditation Standards and ARC-PA policy.

The program's accreditation history can be viewed on the ARC-PA website at

(Please click directly on the document to view the program's Accreditation History)

Student Attrition

The ARC-PA 5th edition Accreditation Standards for Physician Assistant Education standard A3.12i requires that "The program must define, publish and make readily available to enrolled and prospective students general program information to include:

  1.  the most current annual student attrition information, on the table provided by the ARC-PA, no later than April first each year."

Below please find the student attrition information for the past three graduated classes. This information represents student attrition during the professional, accredited phase of the program.

ARC-PA Student Attrition
 

Class of 2021 

Class of 2022

Class of 2023

Maximum entering class size (as approved by ARC-PA)

58

58

58

Entering class size

58

58

59

Graduates

55

56

56

*Attrition rate

.05

.03

.05

**Graduation rate

.95

.97

.95

*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.