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

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking.

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 the Southwest region, there were 532 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in occupational therapy/therapist. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent occupational therapy/therapist programs, but they also cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region.

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

#1

South Plains College

Levelland, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$7,600 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Plains College landed the #1 spot on the list. South Plains College is a medium-sized school located in Levelland, Texas that handed out 4 associates’s occupational therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

South Plains College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Occupational Therapy Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for South Plains College is $7,600 for southwest region associate degree occupational therapy students.

Read full report on Occupational Therapy at South Plains College

#2

Oklahoma City Community College

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$6,842 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma City Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Occupational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s occupational therapy degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

OCCC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Occupational Therapy Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Oklahoma City Community College is $6,842 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Occupational Therapy students.

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• 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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