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• Application Submission Priority Deadline:  October 15

• Application Submission Final Deadline: May 3

• Program Start Date: August 16, 2027

Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications by the priority deadline. Once program spots are filled, qualified candidates will be placed on a waitlist with no guarantee of acceptance.  

No, the PTCAS is used for all Doctor of Physical Therapy programs at NAU. You are invited to provide a preference for which program you’d like to attend, but there is no guarantee that your request will be granted.

Students must take the GRE, but there is no minimum GRE score required.

Observational hours are recommended but not required. They can be paid, volunteer, inpatient or outpatient but must be under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist. We recommend a breadth of experiences and settings rather than a depth of one experience.

No. Interviews are not part of the admissions process.  However, students are required to register for, and complete the Altus Insights Casper Situational Judgement Test.  Learn more about the Casper Test.

Clinical Education Travel
Clinical education experiences may require students to travel to assigned clinical sites. Students are responsible for lodging, transportation, and other associated living costs related to clinical education experiences. These expenses are considered indirect costs of the program.

The program will work with students to the best of our ability when identifying clinical placements; however, we cannot guarantee placements in or near a student’s preferred location or place of residence.

Hybrid Immersion Travel
The Hybrid DPT program requires students to travel to the NAU campus 7 times over the course of the curriculum for laboratory immersion experiences. These immersion experiences typically range between five and eight days each.

Students are responsible for lodging, transportation, and other associated living costs related to laboratory immersion experiences. These expenses are considered indirect costs of the program.

Yes, in fact, we encourage you to do that. If you wish to visit the Flagstaff or Phoenix campuses, email your request to DPTAdmissions@nau.edu.

No, the program is full-time.

We do not require any particular major. In addition to a baccalaureate degree, you must complete all of our prerequisites before beginning the program. You may only have three outstanding prerequisite requirements when you apply.

The Residential and Hybrid DPT programs begin in August of each year.

Transfer credits are not accepted. The entire Program of Study for the DPT must be completed at NAU.