University Accreditation
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is one of 12 universities and 2 Regional Education Centers within the University of Maryland System and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education and the council for Higher Education Accreditation.
Program Accreditation Statement
The ARC-PA has granted Accreditation-Provisional status to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Physician Assistant Program sponsored by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Accreditation-Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program’s ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding Accreditation-Provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students.
Accreditation-Provisional does not ensure any subsequent accreditation status. It is limited to no more than five years from matriculation of the first class.
The program’s accreditation history can be viewed on the ARC-PA website here.
UMES Physician Assistant Department – Student Attrition Rate
The chart above reflects the current attrition data for the UMES PA Program. The attrition chart will be updated annually as required by the ARC-PA. Student attrition is the permanent loss of a matriculated student from the course of study in a physician assistant program.
*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.
Standard A3.12
The program must define, publish and make readily available to enrolled and prospective students general program information to include:
i) the most current annual student attrition information, on the table provided by the ARC-PA, no later than April first each year.
