2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Occupational Therapy is the 84th most popular major in the country with 9,219 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,739 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in occupational therapy/therapist. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality occupational therapy/therapist programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the occupational therapy/therapist program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 for an Associate in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree occupational therapy students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the Southeast Region

#1

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Perkinston, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$8,503 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Located in Perkinston, Mississippi, this medium-sized public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified associates’s occupational therapy students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree occupational therapy students list, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Occupational Therapy Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $8,503 for southeast region associate degree occupational therapy students per year to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

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#2

Coahoma Community College

Clarksdale, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$1,004 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Coahoma Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Coahoma Community College is a small school located in Clarksdale, Mississippi that handed out 2 associates’s occupational therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

Coahoma Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Occupational Therapy Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Coahoma Community College is $1,004 for southeast region associate degree occupational therapy students.

Read full report on Occupational Therapy at Coahoma Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy

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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