2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Physical Therapy for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$24,400
Avg Cost*
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Physical Therapy for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 13,655 people earned their degree in physical therapy/therapist, making the major the 55th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 949 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent physical therapy/therapist programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the physical therapy/therapist program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Physical Therapy for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Physical Therapy for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Physical Therapy for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Baptist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Oklahoma Baptist University is located in Shawnee, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees to qualified students.
OBU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Among the 1,763 students enrolled at OBU, 80 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 33 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $17,051. On top of their other funding sources, 18 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. OBU does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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