PEBT
Performance Data
Success of the program in meeting its goals:
Program Metrics
PANCE Performance Pass Rate: The program has a 100% pass rate for all-takers, as well as an average pass rate of 91.3% for first-time takers after 3 cohorts of graduates. Link to the program's NCCPA PANCE Pass Rate Summary Report.*
| Class of 2017 | Class of 2018 | Class of 2019 | Class of 2020 | Class of 2021 | Class of 2022 | 6-year Average | |
| Average HCE Hours** | 1668 | 5409 | 6548 | 5577 | 6787 | 6111 | 5350 |
| % URM Candidates*** | 18% | 26% | 18% | 30% | 15% | 23% | 21.7% |
| % Veterans | 2.5% | 12% | 6% | 11% | 9% | 11% | 8.6% |
| Student Satisfaction based on Exit Survey | 4.41/5.0 | 4.34/5.0 | 4.36/5.0 | 4.35/5.0 | 4.37/5.0 | ||
| Student Attrition | 0% | 2% | 0% | 4.4% | 2% | 1.7% | |
| First-time PANCE pass rate | 88% | 100% | 86% | 98% | 93% | ||
| All-time PANCE pass rate | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | ||
| % graduates employed within 6 months after passing PANCE | 94% | 96% | 95.65% | 95.23% |
*Due to a change in the NCCPA exam blueprint from 2018 to 2019, the national first-time taker pass rate dropped from 98% to 93%.
** HCE = health-care experience
***At MGH IHP, our working definition of an underrepresented minority (URM) is someone whose racial or ethnic makeup is from one of the following: African American/Black, Asian (Filipino or Vietnamese), Hispanic, Native American/Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, or two or more races, when one or more are from the preceding racial and ethnic categories.