2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2021-2022, 13,809 people earned their degree in physical therapy/therapist, making the major the 55th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 2,948 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southeast Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Southern University landed the #1 spot on the list. GaSou is a large school located in Statesboro, Georgia that handed out 28 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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 GaSou Physical Therapy/Therapist Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region. Louisiana College is located in Pineville, Louisiana and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Louisiana College
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bellarmine University landed the #3 spot on the list. Bellarmine U is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Louisville, Kentucky. It awarded 6 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.
Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at Bellarmine U
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Claflin University landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.
Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at Claflin
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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