The staff in the Office of Academic and Career Advising can help you get started on it. You must complete all requirements for an undergraduate major, all university core requirements, and all physical therapy prerequisites. There is no preferred major for the physical therapy program. You should choose a major which will allow you to pursue your interests, maximize your talents, and provide yourself alternative career pathways. Since physical therapists play diverse roles in the community, diversity of backgrounds is desirable in any group of physical therapy students.
All academic disciplines are ultimately relevant to the practice of physical therapy.
Consult current university Bulletin for individual major requirements. Please note that current admission requirements to the physical therapy program require that you maintain no less than a 3.0 GPA overall. In addition, no applicant is accepted with a grade of less than B in either physics or anatomy and physiology, or grades of less than C in any other prerequisite course. Complete the application for admission to the school of physical therapy during your junior year. You must take the Graduate Record Exam in time to have your scores reported by the application deadline, which means you should take the tests at the November administration or by computer before mid-December.