2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in Minnesota

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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 Minnesota, there were 153 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,414 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in Minnesota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in Minnesota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in Minnesota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in Minnesota

1

St Catherine University
Saint Paul, Minnesota

#19 overall quality in Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, St Catherine University landed the #1 spot on the list. Saint Paul, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s occupational therapy degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Occupational Therapy at St. Kate’s

2

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#1 overall quality in Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this large public school awarded 46 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s occupational therapy students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Full UMN Twin Cities Occupational Therapy Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Doctor’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.