2024 Best Occupational Therapy Schools in Washington
3Colleges in Washington
100Occupational Therapy Degrees Awarded
Ranked #83 in popularity, occupational therapy is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Washington to determine which ones were the best for occupational therapy students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 100 degrees in occupational therapy during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The occupational therapy program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Occupational Therapy rankings. We derive our Best Overall Occupational Therapy School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Occupational Therapy Schools in Washington list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Occupational Therapy in Washington
The schools below may not offer all types of occupational therapy degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Washington - Seattle Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in occupational therapy. Located in the large city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #37 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UW Seattle is a great university overall.
There were approximately 25 occupational therapy students who graduated with this degree at UW Seattle in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Puget Sound is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in occupational therapy. Located in the city of Tacoma, Puget Sound is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 6th out of 51 schools for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were about 42 occupational therapy students who graduated with this degree at Puget Sound in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in occupational therapy has to take a look at Eastern Washington University. Located in the fringe town of Cheney, EWU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 14th out of 51 colleges for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were roughly 33 occupational therapy students who graduated with this degree at EWU in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The occupational therapy program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Occupational Therapy rankings. We derive our Best Overall Occupational Therapy School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
