2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 13,655 people earned their degree in physical therapy/therapist, making the major the 55th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,574 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physical therapy/therapist. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in physical therapy/therapist.

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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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree physical therapy students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Great Lakes Region

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Gogebic Community College
Ironwood, Michigan

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Gogebic Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Gogebic Community College is a small public school situated in Ironwood, Michigan. It awarded 0 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

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Mid Michigan College
Harrison, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mid Michigan College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This small school is located in Harrison, Michigan, and it awarded 0 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at Mid Michigan College

• Most Focused Associate 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.