2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southwest Region

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Physical Therapy/Therapist is the 55th most popular major in the country with 13,809 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,068 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in physical therapy/therapist. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in physical therapy/therapist.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree physical therapy students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southwest Region

1

South Plains College
Levelland, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Plains College landed the #1 spot on the list. South Plains College is a medium-sized school located in Levelland, Texas that handed out 3 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full South Plains College Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

2

Amarillo College
Amarillo, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Amarillo College landed the #2 spot on the list. Amarillo College is a medium-sized public school situated in Amarillo, Texas. It awarded 5 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Amarillo College Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

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

• *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.

Credits

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