2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in North Dakota

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in North Dakota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 North Dakota, there were 117 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 57 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,776 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in North Dakota” 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in North Dakota

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Occupational Therapy in North Dakota

1

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in North Dakota list. Located in Grand Forks, North Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 57 degrees to qualified masters’s occupational therapy students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of North Dakota Occupational Therapy Report

2

University of Mary
Bismarck, North Dakota

#3 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mary. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Occupational Therapy Major in North Dakota. UMary is located in Bismarck, North Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 60 masters’s occupational therapy degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Occupational Therapy at University of Mary

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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.