2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southwest Region
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking.
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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southwest Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Baptist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Oklahoma Baptist University is a small school located in Shawnee, Oklahoma that handed out 19 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Oklahoma Baptist University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tarleton State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region. Tarleton State University is a fairly large public school situated in Stephenville, Texas. It awarded 0 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Tarleton State University
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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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