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PA programs
in Virginia.

Virginia's PA programs stretch from Hampton Roads to Northern Virginia and Southwest Virginia. Check the actual teaching location: Emory & Henry's PA program is in Marion, Radford's is in Roanoke, and Shenandoah teaches in Winchester and Leesburg.

Program and cost sources checked November 12, 2026.

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Program locations and accreditation are checked against official sources. Prices retain their published scope and year; estimates and incomplete totals are identified instead of silently filling gaps.

10 programs shown

Estimated full-program tuition
$50,744 resident
$79,600 nonresident
2026–27 projected across program · Planning estimate

Tuition sum across the three published PA years. Substantial mandatory fees raise direct tuition/fee totals to $104,975 resident or $135,822 nonresident before health insurance. Early Assurance is an admission pathway, not a second PA program.

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What is the cheapest PA school in Virginia?

Virginia programs use both cohort-based and annually revised pricing. ODU's required fees are substantial beyond its tuition line, and JMU's current expense page has conflicting cohort captions. These details matter more than a simple lowest-price sort.

These are verified published cost entries, not a definitive statewide cheapest-school ranking. Coverage, rate years and included charges vary. Fees, housing, insurance and clinical travel can change the final comparison.

Published full-program tuition

ProgramPublished costRate / cohort
Emory & Henry University$95,900 all studentsClass of 2028, May 2026 entry
University of Lynchburg$105,840 all students2026–27

Published full-program tuition + fees

ProgramPublished costRate / cohort
Randolph-Macon College$108,896 all students2026–27 rates, eight terms
ECPI University$115,000 all studentsAugust 2026–August 2028 cohort

Tables are ordered by resident or flat cost where available. Nonresident amounts are shown alongside. Open a program’s source to confirm the rate for your entering class.

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Recognize renamed programs

Old Dominion's Virginia Health Sciences PA program is the former EVMS program. Its Early Assurance option is an admissions pathway, not another accredited PA school.

Check the full direct cost

Compare ODU's tuition plus mandatory fees with other schools' combined charges. A tuition-only number can significantly understate what is billed.

Ask about travel during clinical training

A nearby classroom does not guarantee nearby rotations. Review each program's clinical placement policy and budget separately for temporary housing.

How many accredited PA programs are in Virginia?

The current roster contains ten sponsoring programs. Shenandoah has two teaching locations under one program; ODU Early Assurance does not add another.

Where is ECPI's PA program?

ECPI's official PA program page identifies Virginia Beach as the program location. General ECPI campus navigation also lists other cities that are not PA teaching locations.

Sources you can check

Accreditation and state placement use the current ARC-PA roster, with program sites for campus details. Each cost card links to its university source. “Verified” means the displayed amount and scope were located in an official source on the review date; it does not mean the rate applies to every future entering class.

Tuition-only and tuition-plus-fees totals stay separate. Annual and per-term figures are not treated as full-program totals. Calculated estimates are labelled and excluded from full-program sorts. “Not verified” means a reliable comparable amount was not established, not that a program is free.

Continued, Provisional and Probation are accreditation statuses; applicant programs are not yet accredited. “F” identifies a focused visit. Program-specific cost and accreditation details here reflect this state review; the national directory and paid comparison dataset retain their separately dated snapshots.

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