2022 Best Vallue Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k” 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 Pennsylvania, there were 1,116 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 50 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Vallue Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in physical therapy/therapist. 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the physical therapy/therapist program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Vallue Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income Over $110k) in Pennsylvania

#1

Saint Francis University

Loretto, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$28,643 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Francis University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k list. Saint Francis is located in Loretto, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees to qualified students.

Saint Francis not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. It costs about $28,643 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Physical Therapy students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Saint Francis University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

Full Saint Francis Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

#2

Duquesne University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$29,309 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Vallue Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Duquesne University landed the #2 spot on the list. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 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 35 students in 2019-2020.

Duquesne did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. The yearly cost to attend Duquesne University is $29,309 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Physical Therapy students whose families make more than $110k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low student loan default rate of 2.5% 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 Duquesne University Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income Over $110k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income Over $110k)

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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