Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #25 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for rehabilitation & therapeutic professions students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 114 master's degrees in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions School for Your Master's Degree
The rehabilitation master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on rehabilitation & therapeutic professions students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of rehabilitation & therapeutic professions students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for rehabilitation & therapeutic professions to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized rehabilitation & therapeutic professions related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for rehabilitation & therapeutic professions students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Master's Degree Schools in Maine ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions in Maine
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions.
Top Maine Schools for a Master's in Rehabilitation
Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions has to look into University of New England. UNE is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized suburb of Biddeford.
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions master's degree recipients from University of New England earn a boost of around $4,191 over the typical earnings of rehabilitation & therapeutic professions graduates.
Husson University is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a master's degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions. Husson is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Bangor.
After graduation, rehabilitation master's recipients generally make around $54,809 in the first five years of their career.
University of Southern Maine is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions. Located in the small city of Portland, University of Southern Maine is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the rehabilitation program state that they receive average early career earnings of $48,966.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
The rehabilitation master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
