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Physician Assistant at Northwestern College

Physician Assistant at Northwestern College

If you plan to study physician assistant, take a look at what Northwestern College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NWC is located in Orange City, Iowa and approximately 1,496 students attend the school each year.

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.

NWC Physician Assistant Degrees Available

  • Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant

NWC Physician Assistant Rankings

Physician Assistant Student Demographics at NWC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the physician assistant majors at Northwestern College.

NWC Physician Assistant Master’s Program

79% Women
13% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 21% of physician assistant master's degrees went to men and 79% went to women.

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Of the students who received a physician assistant master's degree from NWC, 83% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 20
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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 IA, the home state for Northwestern College.

Occupation Jobs in IA Average Salary in IA
Health Specialties Professors 2,760 $156,320
Physician Assistants 1,000 $110,550

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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