2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s 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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in physical therapy/therapist. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their physical therapy/therapist program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southeast Region

1

Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, Georgia

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Southern University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Statesboro, Georgia, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Full GaSou Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

2

Louisiana College
Pineville, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. Louisiana College is located in Pineville, Louisiana and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Louisiana College

3

Bellarmine University
Louisville, Kentucky

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bellarmine University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s physical therapy students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Bellarmine U

4

Claflin University
Orangeburg, South Carolina

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Claflin University landed the #4 spot on the list. Claflin is located in Orangeburg, South Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Claflin University

• Most Focused 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

• *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.