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Baltimore, Maryland · Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies
An in-person, 27-month, 111-credit MSPAS program on NDMU’s main Baltimore campus. The sequence combines 59 didactic credits with 52 clinical-year credits, including seven required clinical fields, one elective, capstone work and a summative evaluation. The duration and August 2027 start come from the program-supplied PAEA profile updated March 11, 2026.
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CASPA overall and overall science GPAs must each be at least 3.0. Higher values score better. The program says waiver requests may be considered after CASPA verification for a GPA below 3.0, while also calling requirements non-negotiable; applicants relying on a waiver should obtain written guidance. Preference also goes to completed degrees and prerequisites, higher prerequisite grades/GPA, courses within eight years, at least 500 direct-care hours, at least 24 PA-shadowing hours, three or more favorable recommendations and NDMU alumni (about a 5% academic-score advantage). Admission combines the pre-interview and interview assessments.
Summarized from the program’s admissions information. Confirm current selection criteria with the program.
Program admissions informationInterview is mandatory. PAEA lists traditional and group interview types. NDMU intends in-person interviews on campus but reserves the right to use a virtual format.
Source checked Sep 13, 2026. Interview formats and dates can change between cycles.
Program interview informationReview each course, its lab, and the program’s policies. Your links are planning records; the program decides equivalency.
| Course | Credits | Lab | Min grade | Your coursework |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anatomy & Physiology ICourse notes & alternativesFour credits with a face-to-face lab. Online labs are not accepted except possible case review for labs completed during calendar years 2020–2021. | 4semester credits | Required | B | Sign in to plan |
Anatomy & Physiology IICourse notes & alternativesFour credits with a face-to-face lab. This is the second course in the required A&P sequence. | 4semester credits | Required | B | Sign in to plan |
MicrobiologyCourse notes & alternativesThree credits with a face-to-face lab. The page does not clarify whether the lab is included within the three-credit total. | 3semester credits | Required | B | Sign in to plan |
Organic Chemistry or BiochemistryCourse notes & alternativesEither subject satisfies the one three-credit requirement; a lab is not required. | 3semester credits | Not required | B | Sign in to plan |
PsychologyCourse notes & alternativesThe program does not restrict the published psychology requirement to a named subfield. | 3semester credits | Not required | B | Sign in to plan |
StatisticsCourse notes & alternativesThree or four credits. | 3semester credits | Not required | B | Sign in to plan |
Medical TerminologyCourse notes & alternativesTwo or three credits; must carry a letter grade like every prerequisite. | 2semester credits | Not required | B | Sign in to plan |
Seven required subject rows total 22–24 semester credits depending on Statistics and Medical Terminology. Anatomy & Physiology I, II and Microbiology require face-to-face labs. Organic Chemistry or Biochemistry is one alternative requirement. Genetics (3–4 credits) is recommended only. AP/CLEP applicability to PA prerequisites and community-college restrictions are not published program-specifically; the university’s general prior-learning policy does not prove PA-prerequisite acceptance.
When courses must be complete: The direct program page favors applicants who have completed the degree and all prerequisites before application. The program-supplied PAEA profile permits no more than three outstanding prerequisites and lists March 2027 as their completion timeframe. The bachelor’s or graduate degree must be complete for matriculation.
The Fall 2027 cycle opens May 1, 2026 and is rolling until seats are filled. NDMU’s graduate application page separately publishes March 1 as the fall PA deadline. The PA page calls May 1, 2026 a Wednesday although it falls on a Friday, and retains a stale Fall 2026 sentence. Apply early and confirm the CASPA deadline definition; this packet does not infer received versus verified status.
The Fall 2027 cycle opens May 1, 2026 and is rolling until seats are filled. NDMU’s graduate application page separately publishes March 1 as the fall PA deadline. The PA page calls May 1, 2026 a Wednesday although it falls on a Friday, and retains a stale Fall 2026 sentence. Apply early and confirm the CASPA deadline definition; this packet does not infer received versus verified status.
PAEA updated March 11, 2026 lists August 2027; the direct page advertises Fall 2027 without an exact start date.
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For 2026–2027 the program page publishes $763 per credit, 111 credits, $84,747 tuition and $3,000 in PA student fees ($1,500 in each of years 1 and 2). The stated per-credit multiplication is inconsistent: $763 × 111 = $84,693, $54 below the printed tuition. It prints tuition plus fees as $87,749, although the printed tuition plus fees total $87,747, a separate $2 inconsistency. The university tuition page separately lists $36,320 per year and $1,500 per year in PA fees; those annual amounts are retained as source context and are not used to replace the program page’s direct full-program amounts.
The detailed non-living allowances sum to $9,640, and living/personal/transportation sum to $63,500. The normalized detail total uses the printed $84,747 tuition plus $3,000 fees and all printed expense rows: $160,887. The school instead prints $87,749 tuition plus fees and $160,889 total attendance cost. Costs are estimates and health-insurance spending varies.
Anatomy, physiology/pathophysiology, three clinical-medicine courses, three patient-evaluation/clinical-reasoning courses, pharmacology, diagnostics, behavioral medicine, public health, evidence-based medicine, ethics/history and specialty preparation.
Six-credit rotations in family medicine, internal medicine, surgery, emergency medicine, women’s health, pediatrics, behavioral health and one elective, plus capstone I/II, professional seminar/summative evaluation and transition to practice.
Both sources total 59 didactic plus 52 clinical credits = 111. The catalog separates the didactic phase into five terms (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall II), while the main page groups it into four panels and reallocates several didactic courses across terms. In the clinical phase, the catalog places Capstone I in summer and gives 18 spring plus 13 summer credits; the main page groups Capstone I in spring and prints 19 spring plus 12 summer. These allocation conflicts do not change the total.
PAEA updated March 11, 2026; counts are not assigned to a graduating class.
| Class | Published GPA | Published science-related GPA | Published experience hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current PAEA matriculant demographics; cohort year not specified | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded |
No admitted-class overall GPA, science GPA, GRE average, or experience-hour average is published. PAEA publishes current matriculant counts—21 female, 7 male; 4 Asian, 4 Black or African American, 15 White, and 3 Other—but does not label the cohort year.
Published class statistics describe the named cohort or population. They are not admission minimums or acceptance probabilities.
Graduate outcomes
See first-time program performance with clearly dated national context.
The March 12, 2026 NCCPA report for Class of 2025 lists 21 first-time takers, 16 passes and a 76% first-time pass rate, versus 91% nationally; 76% ultimately passed as of the report date. Only one graduating class is reported, so “five-year” display is a one-cohort cumulative 16/21, not five years of outcomes.
Program reporting year not recorded; direct comparison unavailable.
Program reporting period not recorded; direct comparison unavailable.
2025 graduating cohort
The live program table reports Class of 2025 maximum entering size 35, entering size 25, 24 graduates, 4.00% attrition and 96.00% graduation. Its next two columns are both labelled Class of 2026, an unresolved page-label error; their entering sizes are 28 and 34 and outcomes are N/A.
ARC-PA granted Provisional status with maximum class size 35 and a March 2026 monitoring evaluation.
ARC-PA accepted evidence on instructional resources, student health records, lifespan clinical experiences and student evaluation; no further information was requested.
Provisional status continued. ARC-PA noted ten noncompliance areas, issued a Warning Letter and set January 2028 for the final provisional evaluation.
ARC-PA lists Accreditation-Provisional, first accredited June 2023, maximum class size 35 and next review January 2028. At the January 2026 provisional-monitoring review, ARC-PA issued a Warning Letter and noted ten areas of noncompliance, with five report items due June 9, 2026 and five to be addressed in the final-provisional self-study. The history does not state the later disposition of the June report.
Follow the source for the policy or cohort you are reviewing. A check date is separate from the year a figure describes.
The U.S. News PA rank uses the 2025 PA edition, matched to the listed program and campus. It reflects peer-assessed reputation, not admissions odds or a personal fit score. Programs without a separate entry are labeled “Unranked.”
Unpublished policies and unverified cohort statistics are left open for confirmation.
