Here are some tips for selecting schools, based on an analysis comparing each school to all others across dozens of factors:
Schools Concentrating On Physical Therapists
- Focus: For schools with a focus on this career area, look at Texas State and UTEP.
Fastest Response From Schools
- Request Info: For the fastest information for prospective students, look at the Spotlight schools on this page.
Student Body
- Part-Time: For schools emphasizing part-time studies, consider UTHCSA, UTEP, Angelo State, and Texas Woman's University.
- Female: For schools particularly welcoming to female students, consider Texas Woman's University.
- Diverse: For a diverse student body, consider UTEP, Coastal Bend College, UT Southwestern, and UTHCSA.
- Adult Learners: For lots of adult learners, consider Texas Woman's University and Texas Tech HSC.
School Setting
- Out of State: For geographic diversity, take note of Baylor, Clarendon, UTEP, and Hardin - Simmons.
- Dorms: For a residential campus environment, take note of Hardin - Simmons, Angelo State, Baylor, and Texas State.
Excellence
- SAT: For students with high SAT scores, look at Baylor.
- % Accepted: For selective institutions, look at Hardin - Simmons, UTHCSA, and Baylor.
- Class Size: For small class sizes, look at UT Southwestern, UTHCSA, Texas Tech HSC, and Hardin - Simmons.
Working as a Physical Therapist in Texas
Physical therapists diagnose and treat people who have medical problems that prevent them from moving properly. They also develop plans that enable people to retain fitness before loss of mobility occurs. Read a detailed Physical Therapist job description and schools overview.
Physical therapists may find useful career related resources from the Texas Physical Therapy Association.
State Requirements
Physical therapists have to obtain licenses from the Executive Council of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Examiners.
To get the license, candidates
- have to complete a bachelor's level accredited program
- have at least 60 hours of credits in general education from an accredited institution
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Student/Alumnus Reviews of Schools for This Career and State
The University Of Texas At Austin • Austin, TX
Studying Kinesiology (completion in 2009)
• 1/7/2012
"UT has the best of everything. The best athletics, the best education, the best social scene and the best people."
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale
| Characteristic | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Would Recommend? | yes | UT prepares kinesiology majors for a degree in sports medicine. It gave me a great network of connections to find a job and prepared me very well. |
| Program Reputation | 10 | UT has a lot of experience with sports medicine, due to its own athletic teams. The program is known to be challenging as well as honored. |
| Program Quality | 10 | UT has a very good kinesiology program. It has many connections to the sports world, due to the school's own athletic program. |
| Instruction | 10 | I was prepared very well for the real world. Many projects assigned in the program had to do with real problems I face now that I have a job. |
| How Difficult | 8 | The workload was very heavy. It did not seem that bad, because it was interesting and relevant to my life. |
| Hands-On vs. Bookish | As an underclassman, classes tend to be very large, and most of the course is based on the textbook and lecture, which is used based off the text. As an upperclassman, classes get smaller, and you become more familiar with your professor and get more hands-on learning. | |
| Schedule Flexibility | 6 | UT has over 50,000 students. Getting the class you want at the right time is very difficult, because classes often close out quickly. |
| Academic Facilities | 10 | UT has amazing resources. However, in order to get them, you must go out of your way to find them. With a school so large, they will not be given to you. You get out of the school exactly how much you put into it. |
| Social Life | 10 | UT has an event for everyone. There are always a million things to do every day and every night. I attended countless sports games, tailgates, parties and organizational events. |
| Placement Services | 10 | The kinesiology program at UT is in the college of education, which has a job fair twice a semester. Each student has an academic advisor who is willing to help prepare students for the fairs. |
| Alumni Network | 10 | UT has an outstanding alumni network. Texas Exes is an organization you can join as a student; it connects students with alumni, as well as a networking database between alumni. |