2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy Assistant in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Assistant Major in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Physical Therapy Assistant is the 111th most popular major in the country with 6,499 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Maine, there were 26 physical therapy assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 physical therapy assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,150 and $13,591 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Assistant Major in Maine” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in physical therapy assistant. That schools that top this list have a program in physical therapy assistant in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Assistant Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine associate degree physical therapy assistant students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy Assistant in Maine

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Kennebec Valley Community College
Fairfield, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kennebec Valley Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Assistant Major in Maine list. Kennebec Valley Community College is a small school located in Fairfield, Maine that handed out 14 associates’s physical therapy assistant degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Physical Therapy Assistant at Kennebec Valley Community College

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University of Maine at Presque Isle
Presque Isle, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine at Presque Isle. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Assistant Major in Maine list. Presque Isle, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s physical therapy assistant degrees to 12 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full UMPI Physical Therapy Assistant Report

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.