2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 9,958 people earned their degree in occupational therapy/therapist, making the major the 83rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,729 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 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.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the Southeast Region

1

Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Kentucky University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Richmond, Kentucky, and it awarded 53 bachelors’s occupational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Eastern Kentucky University Occupational Therapy Report

2

Oakwood University
Huntsville, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakwood University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. Oakwood University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Huntsville, Alabama. It awarded 0 bachelors’s occupational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Oakwood University Occupational Therapy Report

2

Claflin University
Orangeburg, South Carolina

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Claflin University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s occupational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Occupational Therapy at Claflin

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Louisiana College
Pineville, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. Pineville, Louisiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s occupational therapy degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Full Louisiana College Occupational Therapy Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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.