2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Great Lakes 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 9,958 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,596 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in occupational therapy/therapist. That schools that top this list have a program in occupational therapy/therapist in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the Great Lakes Region

1

Vincennes University
Vincennes, Indiana

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vincennes University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This fairly large school is located in Vincennes, Indiana, and it awarded 1 associates’s occupational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Vincennes University Occupational Therapy Report

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Alpena Community College
Alpena, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Alpena Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region. Alpena, Michigan is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s occupational therapy degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Occupational Therapy at Alpena Community College

• Most Focused 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

• *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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.