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

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Occupational Therapy is the 83rd most popular major in the country with 9,958 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,729 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in occupational therapy/therapist. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in occupational therapy/therapist.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the Southeast Region

1

Coahoma Community College
Clarksdale, Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Coahoma Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Clarksdale, Mississippi, this small public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified associates’s occupational therapy students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Occupational Therapy at Coahoma Community College

2

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a public institution located in Perkinston, Mississippi. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Occupational Therapy at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

2

Southern Adventist University
Collegedale, Tennessee

Top 5% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Adventist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern Adventist University is a small school located in Collegedale, Tennessee that handed out 0 associates’s occupational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.

Read more about Occupational Therapy at Southern Adventist

• 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.