Ohio contains 26 schools that offer physical therapy assistant programs. Ohio State University-Main Campus, the highest-ranking physical therapy assistant school in OH, has a total student population of 55,014 and is the 33rd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 26 physical therapy assistant schools in Ohio, only 11 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Dayton comes out as the most expensive ($25,494/yr), with Lorain County Community College as the lowest recorded at only $2,528/yr.
Physical Therapy Assistant students from Ohio 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 Ohio alone, there are 1,220 employed physical therapist aides earning an average yearly salary of $24,320. Physical therapists in this state earn $75,340/yr and there are 7,100 employed.
Also, within the physical therapy assistant schools in Ohio, the average student population is 1,976 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 15 to 1. Aside from physical therapy assistant, there are 8695 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,681 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,978, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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