Accreditation

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The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued status to the Albany Medical College Physician Assistant Program sponsored by Albany Medical College. 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remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the Standards.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 March 2028. 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.

The New York State Department of Education has assigned Hegis Code 1299.10.

Program Attrition - 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.
Graduated ClassesClass of 2024Class of 2023Class of 2022
Maximum entering class size (as approved by ARC-PA)424242
Entering class size424242
Graduates394142
*Attrition rate7.1%2.4%0
**Graduation rate92.2%97.6%100%