STUDY
Physical Therapy
- University graduate study programme
- Full-time or part-time mode
- Degree: univ. mag. physioth
- Duration: 2 years (4 semesters)
- Zagreb
- Tuition fee: from 3.750,00 €
Why study Physical Therapy?
Because you can build a career in
- Professional healthcare institutions
- Specialised rehabilitation hospitals
- Public healthcare institutions
- Sports medicine institutions
- Home care institutions
Because you can acquire knowledge and skills in
- Complex physiotherapy and rehabilitation procedures aligned with individual needs
- Managing the physiotherapy system by implementing methods and tools of quality assurance in healthcare
- Elaborating solutions in a complex clinical entity
- Integrating the principles of personalised medicine in physiotherapy and rehabilitation
- Implementing outcome measures of diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation procedures
Description of the study programme
Physical therapy is a healthcare profession that has been growing intensely and demanding that physiotherapists implements the best possible professional practices in their work, based on scientific knowledge. The complexity of healthcare procedures, new methodologies and technologies call for the acquisition of additional skills and competencies.
Due to the demographic changes in the country, changes in the organisation of the healthcare system in the public and private health sectors, morbidity rates from chronic non-contagious diseases, as well as health tourism development, there is an increased need for experts educated to implement complex physiotherapy and rehabilitation procedures in accordance with the recommendations by the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT).
The university graduate study programme of Physical Therapy represents a vertical continuation of education, according to the Bologna principles and the European and global education standards of this occupation.
It comprises three key study areas: the fundamental biomedical science as the basis for understanding the process physical therapy implementation, the modern methodology and technology in physiotherapy, and the scientific evaluation of the existing and research into new physiotherapy methods related to disease, rehabilitation, prevention and enhancement of health.
The study programme conforms to the highest European standards and educational programmes at European higher education institutions, and it is highly student-centred.
Upon completion of the programme, the Master of Physical Therapy will have acquired the ability to provide complex physiotherapy procedures, to participate in the education of other physical therapists, to continue their own education, research and scientific activity in the area of biomedicine and healthcare.
Place of delivery: Zagreb
Learning Outcomes
- primijeniti složene fizioterapijske i rehabilitacijske postupke sukladno individualnim potrebama
- osmisliti kreativno rješenje u složenom kliničkom entitetu
- integrirati principe personalizirane medicine u fizioterapiju i rehabilitaciju
- vrednovati fizioterapijsku praksu utemeljenu na znanstvenim spoznajama
- procijeniti mjere ishoda dijagnostičkih, terapijskih i rehabilitacijskih postupaka
- upravljati sustavom fizioterapije primjenjujući metode i alate sustava kvalitete u zdravstvu
- istražiti i evaluirati nove metode i tehnologije u fizioterapiji
- vrednovati osobni profesionalni razvoj te razvoj pojedinaca i skupina
- prenijeti znanje i vještine na druge dionike u području fizioterapije i rehabilitacije
97%
of our graduates are employed
According to data by the Croatian Employment Service (CES) from the end of April 2025, only 210 of 8,095 graduates from Libertas University are registered at the Employment Service.
