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There are two massage therapy schools in Fort Worth—a public and private college. They award graduates with certificates after as little as six to nine months of study.
Instruction in lecture classes and training in hands-on labs provide the education necessary to become a licensed Texas practitioner. Students learn an array of massage techniques and other therapies. One school has an on-campus clinic where program participants give massages to actual customers.
This is a rewarding occupation in the Lone Star State, with competitive pay and rapidly growing job opportunities.
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19%
51100
This public community college offers an MT program involving 580 clock hours on its South campus. The curriculum lasts 5½-6 months full time or 8-9 months part time.
Students take Health and Hygiene, Hydrotherapy, Anatomy and Physiology, Kinesiology, Pathology, Business Practices & Ethics, and three Massage Fundamentals courses. They also participate in an internship.
Among the massage techniques the program covers are Swedish, chair, hot stone, and deep tissue; as well as simple reflexology foot massage. Students perform two treatments in collaboration with classmates.
67%
509
A privately owned, for-profit school with eight campuses in Texas, CHCP trains prospective MTs in 30 weeks. A part-time evening program takes 43 weeks.
Six hundred clock hours consist of 358 hours in lectures, 242 in labs, and 80 in an internship at the college’s on-site clinic. Students become adept in Swedish deep tissue, pregnancy, sports, chair, and hot stone massage methods.
The curriculum also features courses in Eastern cultures, spa techniques, trigger points technique, aromatherapy, client assessment, business practices, client acquisition and retention, equipment maintenance, and legal and ethical issues.
$20
$41,400
The median income for an MT here is either about $41,400 annually or $20 hourly—nearly identical to the national averages of approximately $41,420 or $20.
The highest paid one-tenth of Fort Worth practitioners make more money than their contemporaries nationwide—over $86,000 or $41.35, compared to about $78,300 or $37.65. The lowest paid one-tenth get around $22,550 or $11 in the city; approximately $21,350 or $10.25 in the entire United States.
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington placed No. 7 among the country’s metropolitan areas in 2016 for the number of licensed MTs, with 3,100. Employment in the field statewide was expected to expand by about a third during the ensuing decade. Only California and Florida have more practitioners.
Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CareerOneStop
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