2022 Best Value Colleges for Occupational Therapy in Rhode Island (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island, there were 39 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality occupational therapy/therapist programs that also have a lower cost than 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 the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Occupational Therapy in Rhode Island (With Aid)

#1

New England Institute of Technology

East Greenwich, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$31,690 Average Net Price

$42,767 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New England Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid list. Located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 39 degrees to qualified ’s occupational therapy students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our rhode island occupational therapy students with aid list, New England Tech has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Occupational Therapy Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. It costs about $31,690 for Rhode Island Occupational Therapy students with aid per year to attend New England Tech.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Occupational Therapy at New England Tech

• Best Value Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value 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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