Doctor of Physical Therapy
Advanced (DPT)

Welcome

If you already have a degree in physical therapy and want to advance your career and skills by earning a doctorate, WesternU's Advanced Standing Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program gives you a convenient and efficient way to earn your DPT degree. By offering credit for coursework already completed and web-based classes, you can update your skills and credentials while maintaining your current job and family commitments.

Our fully accredited program provides courses that are not part of certificate, bachelor, or master's degree curricula. To meet the busy schedules of working therapists, we offer web-based courses supplemented by intensive weekend seminars that only require you to be on the Pomona, California Campus two to three times a trimester. Our program fills the gap in knowledge and skills between what you learned in the past and what is now expected of the new doctoral-prepared graduate.

Why choose WesternU? We have a nationally recognized program and offer:

  • A web-based curriculum that allows you to earn a doctorate while working and keeping family commitments.
  • The opportunity to take a course before enrolling. Contact Carrie Rogers for more information or to enroll. 
  • Experienced faculty, many with 15 to 20+ years teaching experience 
  • WelcomeClinically relevant course content: learning that is integrated with your current clinical or work setting.
  • A record of DPT graduates who are in high demand and who enjoy a lifelong connection with the university.  
  • A true transitional program: study plans are individualized so that you take only the courses you need to meet the doctoral-level standards in knowledge and skills.  
  • A schedule with three trimesters per year, which leaves two breaks of approximately six weeks in summer and between Thanksgiving and New Year's, so you can maintain your personal and professional life.
  • Many faculty who hold doctoral-level degrees and/or who are APTA-board-certified clinical specialists. 
  • Long humanistic tradition of treating patients as people first; treating students as colleagues; and fostering camaraderie among students.

Accreditation
The Transitional Physical Therapy Education Program (Advanced Standing) at Western University of Health Sciences, College of Allied Health Professions is not accredited nor subject to accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), 1111 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314; telephone: 703-706-3245; email: accreditation@apta.org; website: www.capteonline.org.
 

Learn More

There are many ways for you to visit campus to learn more about our programs and we encourage you to attend a WesternU Preview Day. We also invite you to sign up for our electronic mailing list and "like" us on Facebook.