2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Occupational Therapy for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
57
Degrees Awarded
$38,500
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans 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 “Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Occupational Therapy for a Bachelor’s” 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 the Plains States region, there were 1,007 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 57 occupational therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent occupational therapy/therapist programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the occupational therapy/therapist program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Occupational Therapy for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree vets studying occupational therapy.
Top 1 Best Occupational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Louis University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Occupational Therapy for a Bachelor’s. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 52 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s occupational therapy students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at SLU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Occupational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, Saint Louis University supports 12,229 students, and 5 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $25,162. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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