2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Orthotist/Prosthetist is the 710th most popular major in the country with 335 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 orthotist/prosthetist graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in orthotist/prosthetist. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in orthotist/prosthetist.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree orthotist/prosthetist students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Orthotist/Prosthetist

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Concordia University, Saint Paul
Saint Paul, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Concordia University, Saint Paul landed the #1 spot on the list. Saint Paul, Minnesota is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s orthotist/prosthetist degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Concordia University, Saint Paul Orthotist/Prosthetist Report

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University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

Top 5% overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Orthotist/Prosthetist Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s orthotist/prosthetist degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Orthotist/Prosthetist at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

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.