17 Seven of these eight schools are private institutions. The average cost of the seven private AA programs is $77,155. The one public AA program’s tuition and fees is $68,210. This leads to an average cost of $76,037 to educate an anesthesiologist assistant.The average program length for AA education is 25.9 months.he total estimated cost (in 2008 dollars) for CRNA education was $161,809 vs physician anesthesiologists at $1,083,795. These costs include direct and opportunity costs as well as the offset of estimated student/resident productivity.