Physical Therapy Brochure | College of Health Care Sciences

40 | Physical Therapy NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY • Forbes magazine ranked NSU as one of America’s Top Colleges in 2019. Forbes favors variables like low student debt, alumni salary, graduation rate, and student satisfaction. NSU ranked in the top 15 percent of 4,300 institutes of higher education. • U.S. News & World Report ranked NSU as one of the top performers in social mobility for 2020. • According to the National Center for Educational Statistics Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), in terms of all national, four-year, private, nonprofit institutions, NSU ranks ♦ first in doctoral degrees awarded to all minorities ♦ first in doctoral degrees awarded to Hispanic students ♦ second in doctoral degrees awarded to black or African American students • U.S. News & World Report listed several of NSU’s programs among their top 100 graduate schools in the country. Two programs from the Shepard Broad College of Law—health law and legal writing—ranked among the best for 2020, along with three NSU HPD programs—audiology, occupational therapy, and pharmacy. NOTEWORTHY RECOGNITIONS