2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Physical Therapy/Therapist is the 59th most popular major in the country with 13,134 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,770 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent physical therapy/therapist programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the physical therapy/therapist program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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 Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree physical therapy students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

University of South Alabama

Mobile, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$16,112 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Alabama. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. University of South Alabama is located in Mobile, Alabama and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 masters’s physical therapy degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southeast region master’s degree physical therapy students whose families make $0-$30k list, USA has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at USA are $16,112, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at University of South Alabama

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.

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