PT Program Highlights

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• The IC physical therapy program has over 60 years of experience developing top notch graduates.
• Freshman entry and guaranteed eligibility for the DPT curriculum (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).
• Transfer students are welcome (space permitting) and the D. P. T. can be earned in as few as three years.
• 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 1000 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 13 years of teaching experience, and over 12 years at IC.
• The IC pass rate for national licensing exam in 2007 was again one of the best in the country at 95% (cmpare to NYS at 83% and nationally at 89%). See the pass rates compared from 2002-2006.