2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the New England 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 New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 13,134 people earned their degree in physical therapy/therapist, making the major the 59th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 969 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 94 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physical therapy/therapist. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent physical therapy/therapist programs, but they also 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the New England Region

#1

Springfield College

Springfield, Massachusetts

#2 in overall quality

$30,134 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Springfield College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. This small school is located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students list, Springfield College has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Springfield College is $30,134 for new england region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Springfield College

#2

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$31,093 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeastern University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 57 degrees to qualified bachelors’s physical therapy students in 2019-2020.

Northeastern also took the #1 spot in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $31,093 for new england region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students per year to attend Northeastern University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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 Northeastern 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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