2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapist Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Occupational Therapist Assistant is the 146th most popular major in the country with 4,848 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 663 occupational therapist assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 occupational therapist assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapist Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in occupational therapist assistant. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their occupational therapist assistant program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapist Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree occupational therapist assistant students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapist Assistant in the Great Lakes Region

1

Huntington University
Huntington, Indiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapist Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Huntington University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Huntington, Indiana, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s occupational therapist assistant degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Huntington Occupational Therapist Assistant Report

2

Siena Heights University
Adrian, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Siena Heights University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapist Assistant Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Adrian, Michigan, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s occupational therapist assistant students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Occupational Therapist Assistant at Siena Heights University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapist Assistant

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.