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.
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