Physician Assistant at University of South Florida - Main Campus

If you plan to study physician assistant, take a look at what University of South Florida - Main Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

USF Tampa is located in Tampa, Florida and has a total student population of 50,626.

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.

USF Tampa Physician Assistant Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant

USF Tampa Physician Assistant Rankings

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Physician Assistant Student Demographics at USF Tampa

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the physician assistant majors at University of South Florida - Main Campus.

USF Tampa Physician Assistant Master’s Program

Of the 48 physician assistant students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from USF Tampa, about 15% were men and 85% were women.

Of the students who received a physician assistant master's degree from USF Tampa, 58% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the physician assistant master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 38% of degree recipients. That is 13% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of South Florida - Main Campus with a master's in physician assistant.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	28
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Related Majors

• Athletic Training

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 FL, the home state for University of South Florida - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Health Specialties Professors	9,250	$80,990
Physician Assistants	6,040	$105,930

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
• Image Credit: By Rick DeBow under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.