2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions in Rhode Island

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 Rehabilitation Major in Rhode Island” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 29,833 people earned their degree in rehabilitation and therapeutic professions, making the major the 37th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, rehabilitation and therapeutic professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $59,739 and had an average of $25,262 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 80 rehabilitation and therapeutic professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,116 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 48 rehabilitation and therapeutic professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,718 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in Rhode Island” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in rehabilitation and therapeutic professions. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their rehabilitation and therapeutic professions program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in Rhode Island” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in Rhode Island

The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island master’s degree rehabilitation students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions in Rhode Island

1

New England Institute of Technology
East Greenwich, Rhode Island

#4 overall quality in Rhode Island

$63,979 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, New England Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 41 degrees to qualified masters’s rehabilitation students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full New England Institute of Technology Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Report

2

Salve Regina University
Newport, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salve Regina University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in Rhode Island list. Salve Regina is located in Newport, Rhode Island and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 masters’s rehabilitation degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions at Salve Regina

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions in the New England Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions

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.