All graduates of the Weill Cornell Graduate School MSHS Physician Assistant Program are eligible to sit for the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination (PANCE). 

NCCPA Performance Program Report 2025

The following is the pass rate for first-time takers: 

2021 - 93% 

2022 - 94%

2023 – 97% 

2024 - 96% 

2025 – 96% 

As part of our maintenance of ongoing accreditation, the ARC-PA requires us to make attrition and graduation data available to the public, as it appears in the following table:

ARC-PA Student Attrition and Graduation

Class of 2023

Class of 2024

Class of 2025

Maximum entering class size (as approved by ARC-PA)

52

52

52

Entering class size

42

45

47

Graduates

39

45

47

* Attrition rate

7

0

0

**Graduation rate

93

100

100

*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.

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