2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Southeast Region” 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 Southeast region, there were 2,770 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the physical therapy/therapist program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southeast Region

#1

Georgia Southern University

Statesboro, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$15,536 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Southern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. GaSou is a large public school situated in Statesboro, Georgia. It awarded 30 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

GaSou also took the #2 spot in our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Georgia Southern University is $15,536 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Physical Therapy students.

Full Georgia Southern University Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

#2

Louisiana College

Pineville, Louisiana

#3 in overall quality

$12,684 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana College landed the #2 spot on the list. Louisiana College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Pineville, Louisiana. It awarded 2 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

Louisiana College also made our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Louisiana College is $12,684 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Physical Therapy students.

Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at Louisiana College

#3

Bellarmine University

Louisville, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$23,121 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellarmine University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Bellarmine U is located in Louisville, Kentucky and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees to qualified students.

Bellarmine U not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $23,121 for southeast region bachelor’s degree physical therapy students per year to attend Bellarmine University.

Full Bellarmine University Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s 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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