2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income $30-$48k) in New York

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across New York, there were 1,171 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 95 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,973 and $22,589 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physical therapy/therapist. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality physical therapy/therapist programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income $30-$48k) in New York

#1

New York Institute of Technology

Old Westbury, New York

#2 in overall quality

$19,006 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, New York Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Old Westbury, New York, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

NYIT also took the #2 spot in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. The yearly cost to attend NYIT is $19,006 for New York Bachelor’s Degree Physical Therapy students whose families make $30-$48k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at NYIT

#2

Ithaca College

Ithaca, New York

#1 in overall quality

$23,356 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ithaca College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k list. Ithaca, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s physical therapy degrees to 93 students in 2019-2020.

Ithaca also took the #1 spot in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. It costs about $23,356 for New York Bachelor’s Degree Physical Therapy students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Ithaca College.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Ithaca Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income $30-$48k)

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.

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

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