2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy Assistant in the Southwest Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Assistant Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Physical Therapy Assistant is the 111th most popular major in the country with 6,499 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 987 physical therapy assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 59 physical therapy assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in physical therapy assistant in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Assistant Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree physical therapy assistant students.
Top 1 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy Assistant in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Assistant Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pima Medical Institute - Tucson landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 59 bachelors’s physical therapy assistant degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national 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).
- 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%.
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- *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.