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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,887 and $46,998 respectively.

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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The physical therapy school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Duquesne University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$24,048 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Physical Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Duquesne University landed the #1 spot on the list. Duquesne is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 18 masters’s physical therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

Duquesne did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Duquesne are $24,048.

Full Duquesne Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

• Best Value Master’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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.

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