2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southwest 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 949 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physical therapy/therapist. That schools that top this list have a program in physical therapy/therapist in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southwest Region

1

Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma Baptist University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region. OBU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It awarded 9 bachelors’s physical therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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 more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at OBU

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Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tarleton State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in the Southwest Region list. Tarleton is a public institution located in Stephenville, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Physical Therapy/Therapist at Tarleton State 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.