2024 Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Schools in South Carolina

If you pursue a degree in physical therapy/therapist, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #55 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Schools in South Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 88 degrees in physical therapy/therapist during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Physical Therapy/Therapist School

Your choice of physical therapy/therapist school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for physical therapy/therapist schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.

You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.

Pick Your Physical Therapy/Therapist Degree Level

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Schools in South Carolina list, to help you choose the best school for you. You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.

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More information on how we come up with our rankings can be found here: College Factual's Data Methodology.

Best Schools for Physical Therapy/Therapist in South Carolina

The schools below may not offer all types of physical therapy degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top South Carolina Schools in Physical Therapy

1

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

1st Most Popular In SC

65 Physical Therapy Degrees Awarded

Every student pursuing a degree in physical therapy/therapist needs to check out Medical University of South Carolina. Located in the midsize city of Charleston, MUSC is a public university with a small student population.

There were approximately 65 physical therapy/therapist students who graduated with this degree at MUSC in the most recent data year.

More information about a degree in physical therapy/therapist from Medical University of South Carolina

2

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

2nd Most Popular In SC

8.7% Growth in Graduates

University of South Carolina - Columbia is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in physical therapy/therapist. UofSC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Columbia.

There were roughly 23 physical therapy/therapist students who graduated with this degree at UofSC in the most recent year we have data available.

More information about a degree in physical therapy/therapist from University of South Carolina - Columbia

3

Anderson University South Carolina
Anderson, SC

Any student who is interested in physical therapy/therapist needs to take a look at Anderson University South Carolina. Anderson University South Carolina is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Anderson.More information about a degree in physical therapy/therapist from Anderson University South Carolina

Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Physical Therapy/Therapist Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	715	468
North Carolina	710	426
Georgia	690	316
Virginia	630	390
Tennessee	624	317
Kentucky	518	173
Mississippi	501	97
Alabama	500	164
Louisiana	489	101
Arkansas	466	150
West Virginia	410	128

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Rankings in Majors Related to Physical Therapy

One of 16 majors within the Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions area of study, Physical Therapy/Therapist has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions	78
Music Therapy	14
Occupational Therapy	12
Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling	6
Art Therapy	4

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.

More about our data sources and methodologies.