2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in Illinois

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 a Bachelor’s in Illinois” 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 Illinois, there were 370 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree physical therapy students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in Illinois

#1

Loyola University Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$35,407 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loyola University Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 23 degrees to qualified bachelors’s physical therapy students in 2019-2020.

Loyola Chicago did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. The yearly cost to attend Loyola Chicago is $35,407 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Physical Therapy students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.

Full Loyola University Chicago Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

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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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