2025 Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
45
Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
2,498
Doctor's Degrees
If you pursue a doctor's degree in
physical therapy/therapist, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #4 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 45 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of physical therapy/therapist. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 2,498 doctor's degrees in physical therapy/therapist during the 2022-2023 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Physical Therapy/Therapist School for Your Doctor's Degree
The physical therapy doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality physical therapy program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on physical therapy/therapist students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other physical therapy/therapist students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized physical therapy/therapist related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for physical therapy/therapist students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.