2025 Best Pre-Physical Therapy Studies Associate Degree Schools
4Colleges in the United States
27Associate Degrees
Pre-Physical Therapy Studies is about average in terms of popularity for associate degrees programs. That is, it ranks #518 out of the 1020 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Pre-Physical Therapy Studies Associate Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 27 associate degrees in pre-physical therapy studies to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Pre-Physical Therapy Studies School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of pre-physical therapy studies for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality pre-physical therapy studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on pre-physical therapy studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other pre-physical therapy studies students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized pre-physical therapy studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for pre-physical therapy studies students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Pre-Physical Therapy Studies Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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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.