PANCE Results
Program Goals and Outcomes
The Harding University Physician Assistant Program seeks to develop Physician Assistant graduates who practice and live within a framework of a dependence upon their God and faith.
Click here to read our program goals and related outcomes (pdf).
Program Performance
- Total Students Matriculated Since the Program's Inception 2005: 645 students (as of Fall 2023)
- Graduates (as of December 2023): 549 graduates
- Overall Graduation Rate: 96.3% (as of December 2023)
- Job placement
- Exit Interview
- Percent of students who had secured a PA position prior to graduation
- Class of 2023: 68%
- Class of 2022: 40%
- Class of 2021: 56%
- Graduate Survey
- Percent of respondents who are employed as a clinically practicing PA
- Class of 2022: 91%
- Class of 2021: 100%
- Class of 2020: 93%
Harding PA students report that clinical rotations are commonly a source of PA employment opportunities. The program maintains a job board to share employment opportunities with current students and graduates.
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