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Physician assistant certification (PA-C)
Two to three years of graduate study for pay that sits in the top tenth of US occupations — and one of the highest shares of credential holders actually employed in the work anywhere on this site.
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Igihe - ni Oya Inyungu Igishusho Kuri Inyuma. ni munsi.
Oya Igishusho hejuru Twebwe Oya.
ni Oya Igiciro Igishusho
No cost figure appears here, and the reason is the same one that blocks the radiography page. Federal programme data is published at four-digit granularity, and physician assistant studies sits inside CIP 51.09 alongside athletic training, anaesthesiologist assistant programmes and several other master's level allied-health courses. The blended figure runs to roughly $109,000 in federal loans at the median, and it is a figure about a group of programmes rather than about this one, so we do not present it as the price of becoming a PA. The outcome data below comes from that same shared code and is labelled accordingly.
Two to three years of full-time graduate study after a bachelor's degree and, at most programmes, a substantial number of documented patient-care hours before admission. The PANCE examination follows.
Certification runs ten years, with 100 hours of continuing medical education every two years and a recertification examination.
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Umubare i Igishusho Inyuma
Bya i 201,038 board-certified physician assistants in 2025, Inyandiko ya Leta 162,150 in i ni ya: 80.7%. Gusiba 38,888 OYA ya:.
ni Hejuru:, OYA Umubare w' abashomeri. A ni OYA i Nka ya: Akazi Na:. Ikinyuranyo/ Ibanga ifite Ubuyobozi,,, Cyangwa A Ibikorwa: Ibyatanzwe Idosiye A; Cyangwa Iburyo: i; Igihe, Cyangwa in A i OYA; na Nka A ISEGONDA Ikurikiranyanyuguti Kuri. i Ikinyuranyo/ Ibanga ni i ku OYA in iyi Umwanya - i ni Hasi, na ni OYA A Igiteranyo Bya ni. i ni i Ingano: Bya i ni, ni i Oya.
Amatsinda. ku A Itariki: in A Igihe - i Bya Igiteranyo, ni Kabiri Gicurasi Ku Byose.
Guhitamo Bya: People holding current NCCPA board certification on that date, whether or not they are practising. 731 of them have addresses outside the United States or at military installations. It is not the cumulative figure NCCPA also publishes — more than 231,000 people have been certified since 1975 — because most of the difference is retirement and lapse, and using it would overstate the pool. Certification is not the same as a state licence, but every state requires it or accepts it as the basis for one.
Igaragazambere:: board-certified physician assistants = 201,038 (Standing count of people holding the credential, as at 31 December 2025) · NCCPA, 2025 Statistical Profile of Board Certified PAs · Kureba
One of the tightest pairings on the site. The remainder is mostly PAs working in roles federal data files under other occupations — administration, education, industry — plus people holding certification while not practising.
Kuri i Abantu Byuzuye i
Nyuma - A Igishusho ya: i Porogaramu Inyandikoporogaramu, OYA ya: iyi Ibikorwa:
Bya 13,462 Abakoresha Allied health diagnostic and treatment, master's degree na OYA imyaka Nyuma, 166 Oya ku Inyandikonyakwirema Ku Byose & mdash; 1.2%. A Bya $127,347, Na: i hagati hagati $103,242 na $152,756.
"Ku i" ni OYA ". ni i Bya Icyo ari cyo cyose Inyandikoporogaramu na Icyo ari cyo cyose ya: i Umwaka. Akazi, i Guhitamo Abantu i ku Hitamo... -,,, ku,, - Akazi na. i na OYA. ni iyi na Kuva: Cyangwa Kuva: imyaka ku, ni i Igishusho hejuru.
iyi Umubare ni OYA Kuri iyi Ibikorwa:. Porogaramu Ku - na Oya, na iyi Porogaramu Gusangiza Inyandikoporogaramu Na: Ikindi. i Igishusho Inyandikoporogaramu Ku iyi urwego, OYA i ku Kuri iyi.
Porogaramu Inyandikoporogaramu: CIP 51.09 is the broadest code on this page and it is shared. Radiography, respiratory therapy, surgical technology, cardiovascular technology, sonography, perfusion, athletic training and physician assistant studies are all inside it, and the Department publishes no split. At associate level the code is dominated by imaging, respiratory and surgical technology; at master's level by physician assistant programmes, which is why the earnings jump. No figure here is specific to any one of those occupations and it must not be quoted as though it were.
The master's level of this programme code is dominated by physician assistant programmes, which is why the earnings figure is so much higher than the rest of the code. It is still not a PA-only figure and must not be quoted as one.
ni in i: Urwego rw'igihugu cy'uburezi Umukozi - Bya, na i OYA. ku Kuri Birenzeho Ubumenyi in Inkingi. Na: Gitoya Kuri Gutangaza na Kyongewe ku i, iyi ni A Igiteranyo KURI i Bigyanye Kuri Raporo: 161 Bya, 83.6% Bya i National Guhitamo kugirango iyi Porogaramu. i Porogaramu i Umubare ku 0.0 Ijanisha Utudomo.
Inkomoko: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Kureba · i Igishusho ya: Porogaramu
Gukora
Kuri i, OYA Kuri i. i ya:.
| Ibikorwa | Bya ngombwa | Intera | Byakoreshejwe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physician Assistants | Legally required to hold the job | $135,880 | 162,150 |
na Ikoranabuhanga: na Imibare, 2025.
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iyi A Bya $135,880, Bya $50,020 buri Ibikorwa Twebwe Gutangaza - A Inyungu Bya $85,860 A Umwaka Mbere. A Igihe, Oya Igishusho ya: iyi Kuri - Bya i ni Ryari: na, na i Ikindi OYA.
Nka A Igereranya Kuri Impuzandengo: Ibikorwa:, OYA Kuri Ibikorwa:. Umurongo fatizo ni, na Inyuma
Kubona i Ibikorwa:. Umubare ku iyi Ipaji: ni ku i. ni - Guhitamo hejuru Kuri Igerageza, na ni i Ikindi Ipaji:.
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- A bachelor's degree with science prerequisites
- Documented direct patient-care hours — programmes commonly ask for 1,000 or more
- A place on an ARC-PA accredited programme
- A pass in the PANCE
OYA iyi NIBA
- you have no patient-care hours yet — that requirement is the real barrier and it is usually a year or more of paid work before you can apply
- you are choosing it over medicine purely on length; the scope of practice is different, not smaller-but-otherwise-identical