I find it interesting that while overall new enrollment in graduate schools decreased this year, enrollment increased in grad schools in the health sciences by 6.4%. Although The New York Times doesn’t specifically mention which programs this includes, I have to assume it includes PT. As they note, “The health care industry has been hiring consistently and robustly during the recession and the weak recovery.” I know at Columbia our class is bigger than the ones before, and I’ve heard this is true of other PT programs. While the health industry seem to be growing steadily, hopefully the increased applicants won’t flood the field.