2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 Southeast region, there were 2,818 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 28 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 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.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree physical therapy students.
Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southeast Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Adventist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Adventist is a private not-for-profit institution located in Collegedale, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Southern Adventist Physical Therapy/Therapist Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Itawamba Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region. ICC is a small public school situated in Fulton, Mississippi. It awarded 14 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at Itawamba Community College
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a medium-sized school located in Perkinston, Mississippi that handed out 2 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
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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
- *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.
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