Two Options for Your Physician Assistant Future
Studying to be a top physician assistant (PA) is a demanding educational experience that leads to an outstanding career.
Undergraduate students at Clarkson who want to pursue a career as a physician assistant have two options for reaching their professional goals.
Option 1: Direct Entry Physician Assistant BS/MS-PA Program
One application. Two healthcare degrees. Our direct entry healthcare program streamlines your path to becoming a physician assistant.
Students complete four years of undergraduate study at Clarkson for a BS degree, then directly enter our MS in Physician Assistant Studies (MS-PA) program. There’s no second application, as long as all the requirements and academic criteria have been met. The PA program reserves 5 seats per year for students admitted through direct admission, provided they meet minimum entry requirements, including required healthcare experience hours.
All students accepted into the direct entry Physician Assistant Studies program will be eligible to receive a $20,000 CU Health Sciences Undergraduate Scholarship and a $20,000 Presidential Scholarship at the graduate level.
Learn more about Clarkson’s Direct Entry Programs
Option 2: Pre-Physician Assistant Advising Track
The pre-physician assistant undergraduate advising track is for highly qualified and motivated incoming high school students who aspire to be a physician assistant or enter a related healthcare field.
As one of our six pre-health sciences advising tracks, the pre-physician assistant track provides undergraduate students with many advantages that help them reach their educational and career goals. These include access to:
- healthcare internship and co-op experiences
- relevant healthcare-related minors, such as Medicine and Healthcare
- special healthcare-related courses such as Health Coaches
- personalized attention through a pre-health adviser and physician assistant studies adviser
- healthcare-related student clubs and organizations, such as the Pre-Physician Assistant Club
- hands-on medical research opportunities
- state-of-the-art facilities, such as our cadaver lab