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2022 Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

4 Ranked Colleges
145 Degrees Awarded
$22,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Physical Therapy/Therapist is the 59th most popular major in the country with 13,134 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 2,674 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 145 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in physical therapy/therapist. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality physical therapy/therapist programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the physical therapy/therapist program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

New York Institute of Technology

Old Westbury, New York
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New York Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k. This medium-sized school is located in Old Westbury, New York, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

NYIT also took the #4 spot in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $19,006 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend New York Institute of Technology.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full NYIT Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

#2

Duquesne University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duquesne University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Duquesne is a medium-sized school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 35 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students whose families make $30-$48k list, Duquesne has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Duquesne is $22,713 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Duquesne

#3

Ithaca College

Ithaca, New York
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ithaca College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Ithaca, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 93 degrees to qualified bachelors’s physical therapy students in 2019-2020.

Ithaca did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Ithaca College is $23,356 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students whose families make $30-$48k.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 Ithaca College

#4

Saint Francis University

Loretto, Pennsylvania
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Francis University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Loretto, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s physical therapy degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

Saint Francis also took the #3 spot in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Saint Francis University is $23,794 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students whose families make $30-$48k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at Saint Francis

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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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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