2025 Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Schools in Georgia
7Colleges in Georgia
328Physical Therapy Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in physical therapy/therapist, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #55 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in Georgia to determine which ones were the best for physical therapy/therapist students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 328 degrees in physical therapy/therapist to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Physical Therapy/Therapist School
Your choice of physical therapy/therapist school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for physical therapy/therapist schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The physical therapy school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Schools in Georgia.
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Best Schools for Physical Therapy/Therapist in Georgia
The schools below may not offer all types of physical therapy degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is difficult to beat Emory University if you want to pursue a degree in physical therapy/therapist. Located in the city of Atlanta, Emory is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #31 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Emory is a great university overall.
There were approximately 78 physical therapy/therapist students who graduated with this degree at Emory in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Mercer University if you wish to pursue a degree in physical therapy/therapist. Located in the midsize city of Macon, Mercer is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 19th out of 68 schools for overall quality in the state of Georgia.
There were approximately 38 physical therapy/therapist students who graduated with this degree at Mercer in the most recent year we have data available.
Augusta University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in physical therapy/therapist. Located in the midsize city of Augusta, Augusta University is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 27th out of 68 schools for overall quality in the state of Georgia.
There were approximately 36 physical therapy/therapist students who graduated with this degree at Augusta University in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat University of North Georgia if you want to pursue a degree in physical therapy/therapist. Located in the town of Dahlonega, UNG is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 33rd out of 68 schools for overall quality in the state of Georgia.
There were roughly 32 physical therapy/therapist students who graduated with this degree at UNG in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the small city of Gainesville, Brenau is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 34th out of 68 schools for overall quality in the state of Georgia.
There were approximately 40 physical therapy/therapist students who graduated with this degree at Brenau in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the town of Statesboro, GaSou is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #451 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means GaSou is a great university overall.
There were approximately 62 physical therapy/therapist students who graduated with this degree at GaSou in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Atlanta, Georgia State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #483 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Georgia State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 42 physical therapy/therapist students who graduated with this degree at Georgia State in the most recent data year.
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).