2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region

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 Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 949 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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 Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region”.

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

1

South Plains College
Levelland, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Plains College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region. South Plains College is a medium-sized school located in Levelland, Texas that handed out 3 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at South Plains College

2

Amarillo College
Amarillo, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Amarillo College landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Amarillo, Texas, and it awarded 0 associates’s physical therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Amarillo 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.