Admission Requirements

General Requirements

• Completion of 16 academic units at the high school level, four of which must be English; four in social sciences, at least two units of math, including algebra, both with B’s or higher. Two to four units of science including biology and chemistry with labs and grades of B’s or higher.
• Your academic course selection, grades, rank in class, guidance counselor recommendation and minimum SAT score of 1050 or ACT score of 23 will be carefully reviewed for admission consideration. A 3.2 GPA is required.
• Satisfactory recommendation from High School Counselor or Principal.
• Once a student has been accepted, the student is required to complete 30 hours of health care exposure (volunteer or paid work in a patient care setting such as a hospital, clinic, geriatric center or similar health care facility).
• Students are also required to maintain a 3.0 in order to advance within the program.

Available Seats

 The physician assistant program is a high demand major at Gannon and there are only 48 seats available for each new incoming freshmen class. In order to be considered for acceptance to the program, students must submit a completed application (application, official transcripts and test scores) by November 1 of their senior year. Qualified students will be accepted into a pool. After November 1, all students who have been accepted to the pool will be evaluated for the 48 available seats. Students will either be offered a seat in the program or will be placed on a wait list in an order determined by the review committee.  

Transfer Students