2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Physical Therapy/Therapist is the 55th most popular major in the country with 13,809 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 2,948 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 18 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in physical therapy/therapist. That schools that top this list have a program in physical therapy/therapist in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree physical therapy students.
Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Adventist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. Southern Adventist is a small school located in Collegedale, Tennessee that handed out 7 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Southern Adventist
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Itawamba Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region. ICC is located in Fulton, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 10 associates’s physical therapy degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at ICC
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region. This medium-sized school is located in Perkinston, Mississippi, and it awarded 1 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
Full Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Physical Therapy/Therapist Report
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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