General Program Description

The University of North Georgia Department of Physical Therapy accepts a new class of 30 students each year for a total of 90 students in the 3-year professional Doctor of Physical Therapy curriculum. The new cohort enters in the summer term and continues for nine consecutive semesters, including two summers. A modified problem-based learning curriculum model is used in which students work in tutorial groups of ten students and one faculty. The research sequence of courses begins in the fourth semester (second year) and concludes in the sixth semester with a completed research project. Students are supervised throughout the three years by a cadre of ten full-time and one part-time faculty. Eleven faculty members hold earned doctorates and seven are board certified clinical specialists.

Clinical Experiences
Students complete three clinical education experiences for a total of 32 weeks of full-time clinical education: two of 8 weeks duration each in the fourth and seventh semesters, and one of 16 weeks that concludes the program in the ninth semester. We have a wide diversity of clinical facility agreements in 30 states (>340 clinical sites).

Enrollment
The university has a total enrollment of more than 15,072 students. The department of physical therapy accepts a new class of 30 students each year for a total of 90 students in the 3-year professional master’s program.

Admission
Please call Lynn Youngblood at 706-864-1863 or email [email protected] for admissions information. Applications are available from the Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service (PTCAS) at:www.ptcas.org Specific application deadlines are set annually and are posted at the PTCAS website.