2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Occupational Therapy is the 83rd most popular major in the country with 10,592 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 1,983 occupational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 76 occupational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in occupational therapy. That schools that top this list have a program in occupational therapy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The occupational therapy school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region”.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree occupational therapy students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the Southeast Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Kentucky University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Richmond, Kentucky, and it awarded 76 bachelors’s occupational therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Occupational Therapy at Eastern Kentucky University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakwood University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. Oakwood University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Huntsville, Alabama. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Occupational Therapy at Oakwood University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Claflin University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. Claflin is a small school located in Orangeburg, South Carolina that handed out 0 bachelors’s occupational therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Occupational Therapy at Claflin
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Pineville, Louisiana, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s occupational therapy students in 2021-2022.
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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