2022 Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 9,219 people earned their degree in occupational therapy/therapist, making the major the 84th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,739 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 75 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in occupational therapy/therapist. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great occupational therapy/therapist programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the occupational therapy/therapist program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Eastern Kentucky University

Richmond, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$14,149 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Kentucky University landed the #1 spot on the list. Richmond, Kentucky is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s occupational therapy degrees to 74 students in 2019-2020.

Eastern also made our “Best Occupational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Eastern Kentucky University is $14,149 for southeast region bachelor’s degree occupational therapy students with aid.

Read full report on Occupational Therapy at Eastern Kentucky University

#2

Louisiana College

Pineville, Louisiana

#2 in overall quality

$12,684 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Louisiana College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Pineville, Louisiana. It awarded 1 bachelors’s occupational therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

Louisiana College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Occupational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Louisiana College is $12,684 for southeast region bachelor’s degree occupational therapy students with aid.

Read full report on Occupational Therapy at Louisiana College

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy (With Aid)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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