Physician Assistant at Oakwood University

If you are interested in studying physician assistant, you may want to check out the program at Oakwood University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Oakwood is located in Huntsville, Alabama and has a total student population of 1,374. In 2021, 4 physician assistant majors received their bachelor's degree from Oakwood.

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.

Oakwood Physician Assistant Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physician Assistant

Oakwood Physician Assistant Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the physician assistant progam at Oakwood compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The physician assistant major at Oakwood is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Physician Assistant. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Popular Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Degree Schools	11
Most Focused Physician Assistant Schools	164
Most Popular Physician Assistant Schools	225

Physician Assistant Student Demographics at Oakwood

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

Oakwood Physician Assistant Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 4 physician assistant majors earned their bachelor's degree from Oakwood. Of these graduates, 25% were men and 75% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 76% more racial-ethnic minorities in its physician assistant bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Oakwood also has a doctoral program available in physician assistant. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

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 AL, the home state for Oakwood University.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Health Specialties Professors	1,960	$108,310
Physician Assistants	750	$92,880

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.