2023 Most Focused Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in Arizona

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in Arizona” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Physical Therapy/Therapist is the 55th most popular major in the country with 13,655 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Arizona, there were 150 physical therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in Arizona” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in Arizona

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in Arizona”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in Arizona

1

Midwestern University - Glendale
Glendale, Arizona

$84,090 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Midwestern University - Glendale. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in Arizona. Midwestern University - Glendale is located in Glendale, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 54 ’s physical therapy degrees to qualified students.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Physical Therapy/Therapist at Midwestern University - Glendale

2

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

#6 overall quality in Arizona

$43,197 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,197 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Arizona University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Physical Therapy Major in Arizona. Flagstaff, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s physical therapy degrees to 96 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% 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%.

Full NAU Physical Therapy/Therapist Report

• Most Focused Colleges for Physical Therapy/Therapist in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused 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.