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
Student/Alumnus Reviews of Schools for This Career and State
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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. |
Baylor • San Antonio, TX
Studying Army Baylor PT Program (completion in 2011)
• 3/15/2012
"It was one of the best experiences of my life. It has provided me with the skills to excel in life."
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale
| Characteristic | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Would Recommend? | maybe | I think it depends on your motivation and especially whether you want to be in the Army or not. Being in the military is a huge commitment and one needs to think about whether they can make that serious of a commitment. |
| Program Reputation | 10 | The school itself is very prestigious. I don't think the government would use the school if it wasn't the best. |
| Program Quality | 10 | I think Physical therapy is an important field. It will be increasingly important with the coming of age of the baby boomer generation. |
| Instruction | 10 | It is an extremely specific field of study, yet we are given almost the same amount of schooling as a regular doctor. |
| How Difficult | 5 | I believe it is as difficult as any other medical program, and I was only on undergraduate. It is difficult work and you either have the aptitude for it or you don't. |
| Hands-On vs. Bookish | I would say it is an excellent mix. We are given a solid amount of hands on education in the class room and plenty of supplemental reading to do at home. | |
| Schedule Flexibility | 1 | It is a full-time program. It is supplemented by regimental training. It's not flexible at all. |
| Academic Facilities | 10 | We are given study groups and all the extra help we need. With a higher budget, we have all the necessary peripheral equipment we need to study. |
| Social Life | 10 | It's excellent! The only problem is that we are far from the main campus and as such we aren't given easy access to such things as athletic events, which would be better. |
| Placement Services | This is again irrelevant. If you graduate from the school, you are given a job. | |
| Alumni Network | I am going through this in the army, so this question is irrelevant. I could probably tell you more if and when I get out of the army. |
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