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Physical Therapy Assistant Schools near Greensboro

Greensboro, NC (population: 259,523) has twelve physical therapy assistant schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Duke University, the highest ranked school in this group with a physical therapy assistant program, has a total student population of 14,350. It is the 15th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of North Carolina.

Physical Therapy Assistant students from Greensboro schools who go on to become physical therapy assistants, exercise physiologists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 174,490 people working as physical therapists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $76,220. Also, Physical therapist aides make on average $24,990 per year and there are about 44,160 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Greensboro-High Point area alone, there are 70 employed physical therapist aides earning an average salary of $25,750. Physical therapists in this area earn $78,780/yr and there are 330 employed.

Greensboro lies in Guilford county, which is one of the 64 counties in North Carolina. Overall, the Greensboro-High Point area has 349,130 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.1% unemployment rate, $18.78/hr average worker wage, and a $39,060 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.941 out of every 1000 jobs in Greensboro are held by physical therapists, and 0.203/1000 are held by physical therapist aides.

Of the 12 physical therapy assistant schools with a 100-mile radius of Greensboro, only 6 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Elon University comes out as the most expensive ($26,867/yr) for physical therapy assistant students, with Wytheville Community College as the lowest, reported at only $1,335/yr.

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Name	State	Population	# of Schools	Avg School Rank	Total Programs	Distance from Greensboro
High Point	NC	105,064	3	31.8326	88	11.8 miles
Burlington	NC	53,389	3	40.9051	223	21.2 miles
Wentworth	NC	-	1	11.7821	42	22.4 miles
Winston Salem	NC	-	7	32.3218	230	23.2 miles
Martinsville	VA	-	1	12.8903	37	42.4 miles
Chapel Hill	NC	53,800	1	88.0971	148	45.4 miles
Salisbury	NC	-	6	27.3664	241	45.9 miles
Misenheimer	NC	-	1	21.9215	70	48.5 miles
Durham	NC	235,337	9	27.0185	371	51.9 miles
Dobson	NC	-	1	13.9158	60	54.4 miles
Kannapolis	NC	44,672	0	-	0	60.3 miles
Cary	NC	145,939	1	22.8054	14	61.3 miles
Statesville	NC	-	1	10.6088	63	62.7 miles
Mooresville	NC	-	2	20.4244	6	64.8 miles
Raleigh	NC	421,938	10	29.4746	493	67.9 miles
Charlotte	NC	723,514	18	27.5295	455	82.9 miles
Roanoke	VA	93,951	6	33.4955	146	83.3 miles
Radford	VA	-	1	30.9064	73	83.7 miles
Blacksburg	VA	42,683	1	0.0883301	0	86.2 miles
Hickory	NC	42,082	2	18.4574	166	87.3 miles
Fayetteville	NC	177,632	7	29.3341	376	87.3 miles
Belmont	NC	-	2	36.2771	82	89.2 miles
Laurinburg	NC	-	1	18.8047	40	92.7 miles
Gastonia	NC	75,340	1	28.6194	5	94.7 miles
Lynchburg	VA	70,334	8	26.4016	274	98.0 miles