The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) protects both the public interest and the PA profession. The agency defines PA educational standards and evaluates programs within the territorial United States to ensure compliance with those standards.
The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued status to the Augusta University Physician Assistant Program sponsored by Augusta 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remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the Standards.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 June 2029. 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 Augusta University Accreditation Actions History.
Accreditation Review Committee on Education for the Physician Assistant
3325 Paddocks Parkway, Suite 345
Suwanee, Georgia 30024
Department of Physician Assistant
Health Sciences Campus
987 St. Sebastian Way
Room 3304
706-721-3247
| Graduation Year | Maximum Entering Class size (as approved by ARC-PA) |
Entering Class Size | Graduates | Attrition Rate* | Graduation Rate** |
| 2022 | 50 | 44 | 40 | 9.1% | 90.9% |
| 2023 | 50 | 44 | 39 | 11.4% | 88.6% |
| 2024 | 50 | 44 | 40 | 9.1% | 90.9% |
*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.
| Accepted Applicants' Statistics | Class of 2020 | Class of 2021 | Class of 2022 | Class of 2023 | Class of 2024 |
| Average GPA | 3.65 | 3.65 | 3.69 | 3.62 | 3.61 |
| Average Math/Science GPA | 3.55 | 3.55 | 3.52 | 3.47 | 3.46 |
| Average GRE | 305 | 305 | 308 | 308 | 307 |
| Average Age | 25 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 24 |
| Males Accepted | 8 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 |
| Females Accepted | 37 | 38 | 36 | 39 | 37 |
| In state resident | 42 | 41 | 38 | 39 | 40 |
| Out of state resident | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| With degree | 45 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 |
| Without degree | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
