2025 Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
122Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in physical therapy/therapist, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #458 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for physical therapy/therapist students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 122 bachelor's degrees in physical therapy/therapist during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Physical Therapy/Therapist School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of physical therapy/therapist for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to physical therapy/therapist students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other physical therapy/therapist students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized physical therapy/therapist related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for physical therapy/therapist students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Physical Therapy/Therapist Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Physical Therapy/Therapist in the New England Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in physical therapy/therapist.
Top New England Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Physical Therapy
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).