Accreditation
The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued status to the Department of Physician Assistant Studies sponsored by East Carolina University. Accreditation-Continued is an accreditation status granted when a currently accredited program is in compliance with the ARC-PA Standards.
Accreditation remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the Standards. The approximate date for the next validation review of the program by the ARC-PA will be September 2025. The review date is contingent upon continued compliance with the Accreditation Standards and ARC-PA policy.
The program’s accreditation history can be viewed on the ARC-PA website.
Annual Student Attrition Information
Metrics | Class of 2021 | Class of 2022 | Class of 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum entering class size (as approved by ARC-PA) | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Entering Class Size | 38 | 37 | 36 |
| Graduates | 36 | 36 | 33 |
| *Attrition Rate | 13% | 2.7% | 8.3% |
| **Graduation Rate | 87% | 97% | 92% |
*Attrition rate calculation: Number of students who attritted from cohort divided by the entering class size.
**Graduation rate: Number of cohort graduates divided by the entering class size.