2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Orthotist/Prosthetist in the Southeast Region

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In 2021-2022, 331 people earned their degree in orthotist/prosthetist, making the major the 710th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 18 orthotist/prosthetist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 orthotist/prosthetist graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in orthotist/prosthetist. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in orthotist/prosthetist.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree orthotist/prosthetist students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Orthotist/Prosthetist in the Southeast Region

1

Alabama State University
Montgomery, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alabama State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Southeast Region list. Alabama State is located in Montgomery, Alabama and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 9 masters’s orthotist/prosthetist degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Orthotist/Prosthetist at Alabama State

2

Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major in the Southeast Region list. Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is a large public school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 0 masters’s orthotist/prosthetist degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus Orthotist/Prosthetist Report

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

• *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.

Credits

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