The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC-PA) has granted Accreditation-Continued status to the Union College Physician Assistant Program sponsored by Union 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remains in effect until the program closes or withdraws from the accreditation process or until accreditation is withdrawn for failure to comply with the Standards.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 2027. 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 at http://www.arc-pa.org/accreditation-history-union-college/.
PANCE performance results
Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination
Exam Performance Summary Report
Program Name: Union College
Program Number: 1149
Test Taker Status: First Time Takers
Definitions of the report headings are provided at the end of the report.
All information is current as of the date the report was generated unless otherwise specified.
Class | Class Graduation Year | Group | Number of Candidates Who Took PANCE | Number of Exam Attempts | Number of Exams Passed | Program Exam Pass Rate | National Exam Pass Rate for the Class Graduation Year | % of Candidates Who Ultimately Passed PANCE |
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May 2018 | 2018 | All takers | 28 | 28 | 28 | 100% | 97% | 100% |
First-time takers | 28 | 28 | 28 | 100% | 98% | 100% | ||
May 2019 | 2019 | All takers | 27 | 31 | 26 | 84% | 91% | 96% |
First-time takers | 27 | 27 | 24 | 89% | 93% | 96% | ||
May 2020 | 2020 | All takers | 29 | 29 | 28 | 97% | 93% | 97% |
First-time takers | 29 | 29 | 28 | 97% | 95% | 97% | ||
May 2021 | 2021 | All takers | 29 | 30 | 29 | 97% | 91% | 100% |
First-time takers | 29 | 29 | 28 | 97% | 93% | 100% | ||
May 2022 | 2022 | All takers | 29 | 29 | 29 | 100% | 89% | 100% |
First-time takers | 29 | 29 | 29 | 100% | 92% | 100% |
Definitions of Report Headings | ||||
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Class | Class nomenclature and individuals included in each class are determined by PA programs when assigning students to a particular class. | |||
Class graduation year | Graduation year for the majority of the individuals in the specific class based on the confirmed graduation date provided by the PA program. | |||
Group | All takers include first time takers as well as those individuals in the class who repeated the exam one or more times. First time takers are those candidates who took PANCE for the first time. | |||
Number of Candidates Who Took PANCE | Number of individuals from the class who have taken PANCE. First time Takers are included in the all takers group. | |||
Number of Exam Attempts | Total number of exams administered, including multiple exam attempts for an individual candidate in the all takers group. (This is a count of exams administered, not a count of individual candidates.) | |||
Number of Exams Passed | Number of exams administered that resulted in a passing score. | |||
Program Exam Pass Rate | Percent of exams that were passed as compared to the number of exams that were administered to the class, including multiple exams taken by individual candidates. | |||
National Exam Pass Rate for the Class Graduation Year | Percent of exams that were passed at the national level as compared to the number of exams that were administered. The calculation is based on the total number of exams administered and passed, not the number of individual candidates. The reporting period is based on the calendar year corresponding with the class graduation year and will only be provided after the end of the current calendar year. | |||
% of Candidates in the Class Who Ultimately Passed PANCE | Percent of candidates from the specified class that have passed PANCE as of the date the report was generated, regardless of the number of attempts or the calendar year in which PANCE was passed. |
Graduation and attrition report
Graduated Classes | |||
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Class of 2020 | Class of 2021 | Class of 2022 | |
Maximum entering class size (as approved by ARC-PA) | 30 | 30 | 30 |
Entering class size | 32 | 30 | 31 |
Graduates | 30 | 29 | 29 |
* Attrition rate | 6.45% | 3.33% | 6.45% |
**Graduation rate | 93.75% | 96.66% | 93.55% |
*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.
Comments:
- Two students joined and graduated with the class of 2020, one from the 2018 cohort and one from the 2019 cohort.

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