2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,770 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 41 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in physical therapy/therapist. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great physical therapy/therapist programs and cost less that 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 an Associate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southeast Region

#1

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Perkinston, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$8,503 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a public institution located in Perkinston, Mississippi. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 24 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $8,503 for southeast region associate degree physical therapy students per year to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

#2

Itawamba Community College

Fulton, Mississippi

#3 in overall quality

$5,107 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Itawamba Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. ICC is a small public school situated in Fulton, Mississippi. It awarded 9 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

ICC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend ICC is $5,107 for southeast region associate degree physical therapy students.

Full Itawamba Community College Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

#3

Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$22,661 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Adventist University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Located in Collegedale, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 8 degrees to qualified associates’s physical therapy students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree physical therapy students list, Southern Adventist has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $22,661 for southeast region associate degree physical therapy students per year to attend Southern Adventist.

Full Southern Adventist Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist

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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