2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Rehabilitation Science in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Rehabilitation Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,161 people earned their degree in rehabilitation science, making the major the 393rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 117 rehabilitation science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 99 rehabilitation science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Rehabilitation Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in rehabilitation science. To top this list, a school must have a successful rehabilitation science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Rehabilitation Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree rehabilitation science students.

Top 5 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Rehabilitation Science in the Southeast Region

1

Arkansas Tech University
Russellville, Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arkansas Tech University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Rehabilitation Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s. Arkansas Tech University is a public institution located in Russellville, Arkansas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 40 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full ATU Rehabilitation Science Report

2

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Rehabilitation Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. George Mason University is a large school located in Fairfax, Virginia that handed out 25 bachelors’s rehabilitation science degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Rehabilitation Science at GMU

3

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee

Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Rehabilitation Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, East Tennessee State University landed the #3 spot on the list. ETSU is a public institution located in Johnson City, Tennessee. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full East Tennessee State University Rehabilitation Science Report

4

Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marshall University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Rehabilitation Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Marshall University is located in Huntington, West Virginia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s rehabilitation science degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Rehabilitation Science at Marshall University

4

Middle Georgia State University
Macon, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Middle Georgia State University. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Rehabilitation Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s. Macon, Georgia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s rehabilitation science degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

Full Middle Georgia State University Rehabilitation Science Report

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Rehabilitation Science

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.