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There are four massage therapy schools in Jacksonville. They provide public and privately owned options for students seeking certificates to obtain Florida licenses.
Programs are composed of classes, labs, and practical experiences. Students become adept at an array of relaxation and clinical massage methods. They give treatments to the public at on-campus spas or clinics.
Job opportunities abound in Florida, which trails only California in MT employment. More than 2,000 positions are becoming available annually, according to federal statistics.
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We selected the schools below based on the programs that they offer, accreditation, student population, graduation rate and reputation.
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This private aesthetic beauty school offers a 600-contact-hour MT program. There are full-time, part-time, and evening/weekend class schedules.
Students attain proficiency in Swedish and deep tissue massage techniques, as well as reflexology and neuromuscular modalities. They get practice applying the methods to customers at PSI’s spa. In addition to Swedish and deep tissue treatments, services include chair massages, hot stone massages, and back scrubs with massages.
Each year, five program enrollees receive scholarships between $3,000 and $4,853. The school reports a job-placement rate of about 83 percent and a licensing exam pass rate of approximately 87 percent.
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A large public institution, FSCJ provides more than 150 educational programs. It boasts “one of the most affordable tuition rates in the U.S.”
The MT curriculum consists of 375 clock hours in classrooms and 375 hours in clinical environments. To earn workforce certificates, students take courses in massage theory, hygiene, human anatomy and physiology, legal and ethical aspects of massage practice, allied therapies, leadership and human relations skills, health and safety, and employment enhancement. Hydrotherapy classes feature a sauna; a steam room; and full-immersion, whirlpool, and paraffin baths.
Graduates come back to the school for state-approved continuing education courses.
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This institution’s Clinical/Medical Massage Therapy School promises “leading-edge training and hands-on skills not available anywhere else.”
Students commit to 500 clock hours in 24 weeks full time or 48 weeks part time. They choose daytime or evening classes. Graduates are certified clinical soft-tissue specialists skilled at treating chronic pain issues. Instructors teach Swedish massage, myofascial and structural therapy, trigger point therapy, sports massage, geriatric treatments, and other modalities.
A program benefit is receiving three or four 60-minute massages each week. Small classes start four times per year. “Flexible in-house payment options” allow students to graduate without debt.
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There is no tuition for a 900-clock-hour MT program here. Students pay only an enrollment fee plus about $100 per month.
The curriculum teaches barefoot, hot stone, deep tissue, and other massage techniques. There are courses in anatomy and physiology, massage theory and history, Florida statutes, hydrotherapy, medical errors prevention, HIV/AIDS, business aspects, ethics, and pathology. A practicum in the school’s public clinic features 300 massage treatments.
A seven-month, 501-hour program charges a tuition rate of approximately $5,000. Both programs are available during the day or at night, either full time or part time.
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With median salaries and hourly wages of about $24,270 and $16.50, practitioners in this city make a little bit less than the approximately $41,420 and $19.90 of their peers nationwide.
Those enjoying incomes in the uppermost 10 percent receive around $66,650 annually or $32 hourly—below the U.S. figures of almost $78,300 or $37.70. Earnings among Jacksonville’s lowest 10 percent are about $18,250 or $8.80, compared to nearly $21,350 or $10.30 across the nation.
After reporting 13,670 MTs in Florida in 2016, the U.S. labor statistics bureau predicted 32 percent job growth through the coming decade. That would exceed the forecasted national rate of 26 percent.
Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CareerOneStop
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