Life Of A PA – A Day In The Life Of A Physician Assistant|The Every Day Life Of A Physician Assistant

I know a lot of people are curious as to how many people get into PA school and how big the classes are.  In other words, people are worried about how many of those applying to a given school will actually get in.  Trust me, I know the worry.  Physician Assistant school is very competitive.  I think this is best expressed by a conversation I had with a very prominate physician.  The physician asked how I was and what I was doing.  I told him him I had been accepted to PA school.  His eyes lite up and he said to me “WOW…i’m on the admissions board for the medical school, medical students, and I can tell you, PA school is actually harder to get into these days than Med school.”

Now, don’t quote me as saying physician assistant school is harder to get into than Med school.  I’m just passing on what an individual who’s opinion can be trusted told me.

So what is the meat of this post?  Well, I have done a searching on the net for you and have found the class size for some common PA schools.  All the class sizes I present are from the offical institutions website, but I have not verified that they are all current and accurate.  Please just use this numbers to get an understanding of the common class sizes.

Idaho State Univeristy- 50

Loma Linda University-24
Louisiana State University/ Health Sciences Center PA program: 36 students

Mercer Univeristy -20

Saint Francis University – 55-60

The University of New Mexico Physician Program- 15

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center- 40

Penn State- 30

Pacific University- 42

Harding University – 32

Mayo School of Health Sciences- 12

Western University-98