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2022 Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

4 Ranked Colleges
145 Degrees Awarded
$28,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 the Middle Atlantic 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 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” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Saint Francis University

Loretto, Pennsylvania
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Francis University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. 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 did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Saint Francis University is $28,643 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Physical Therapy students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Saint Francis University

#2

Duquesne University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Duquesne University landed the #2 spot on the list. Duquesne is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 35 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

Duquesne did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Duquesne University is $29,309 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full Duquesne University Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

#3

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 #3 for the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. 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 made our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $21,427 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Physical Therapy students 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%.

Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at New York Institute of Technology

#4

Ithaca College

Ithaca, New York
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ithaca College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Ithaca, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 93 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s physical therapy students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students list, Ithaca has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Ithaca is $33,465 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students.

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

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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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