2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in California (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid” 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 California, there were 1,592 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 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.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 California For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for california master’s degree physical therapy students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in California (With Aid)

#1

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

#1 in overall quality

$48,715 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #1 spot on the list. USC is a private not-for-profit institution located in Los Angeles, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

USC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Master’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern California are $48,715.

Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at University of Southern California

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Far Western US Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (With Aid)

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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