2023 Most Well Attended Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 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 “Most Well Attended Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in occupational therapy/therapist. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular occupational therapy/therapist programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s”.

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

1

Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, Kentucky

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Kentucky University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Richmond, Kentucky, this fairly large public school handed out 53 degrees to qualified bachelors’s occupational therapy students in 2020-2021.

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2

Louisiana College
Pineville, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Louisiana College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Pineville, Louisiana. It awarded 0 bachelors’s occupational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Claflin University
Orangeburg, South Carolina

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s 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 more about Occupational Therapy at Claflin

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Oakwood University
Huntsville, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakwood University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Occupational Therapy Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Oakwood is a small school located in Huntsville, Alabama that handed out 0 bachelors’s occupational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Oakwood University Occupational Therapy Report

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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.