PT Program Highlights

• The IC physical therapy program has over 60 years of experience developing top notch graduates.
• Freshman entry and guaranteed eligibility for the DPT curriculum (i.e. no graduate application is needed provided academic requirements are met)
• The D. P. T. degree will be fulfilled in six total years for freshman entry (for B. S. and D. P. T. Degrees). Students entering as freshman with appropriate AP and Transfer credits may request to accelerate and complete the DPT program in as little as five years. No limitation on the number of AP or IB credits accepted for courses recognized as IC equivalents. See the Undergraduate Catalog ... 
• Study abroad is encouraged.
• Transfer students are welcome (space permitting) and the D. P. T. can be earned in as few as three years for students with a B. S. degree.
• IC has a small college feel, but has a university’s range of academic and extracurricular opportunities.
• A small (college) town location -- Ithaca is readily accessible to the major northeast metropolitan areas (e.g., 4 hours’ drive to New York City and Philadelphia, and 6-7.5 hours to Boston, Pittsburgh, or Washington).
• On campus PT Clinic.
• Facilities in Rochester, NY afford access to metropolitan area health care programs and research collaborations for faculty and students.
• IC has state-of-the-art teaching, clinical, and research facilities. Read more about new facilities in Rochester.
• Clinical Education opportunities with over 1100 facilities affiliated with IC.
• Nineteen full-time PT Department faculty who are all physical therapists and have become content experts in a wide range of academic and clinical disciplines. The PT faculty as a group have an average of over 18 years of teaching experience, and over 15 years at IC.
• The IC pass rate for PT national licensing exam in 2009 (as of January 2010) was again one of the best in the country at 96% (compare to NYS at 82% and nationally at 86%). See the PT licensing exam pass rates history.