Occupational Therapy at University of Southern California

If you are interested in studying occupational therapy, you may want to check out the program at University of Southern California. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and approximately 46,287 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Occupational Therapy section at the bottom of this page.

USC Occupational Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy

USC Occupational Therapy Rankings

There were 72 students who received their doctoral degrees in occupational therapy, making the school the #4 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Occupational Therapy Student Demographics at USC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the occupational therapy majors at University of Southern California.

USC Occupational Therapy Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 15% of occupational therapy master's degrees went to men and 85% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 9% men graduate in occupational therapy each year. USC does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 6% more men than average.

In the occupational therapy master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 56% of degree recipients. That is 30% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Southern California with a master's in occupational therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	50
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	34
White	30
International Students	44
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

Related Majors

• Physical Therapy/Therapist

Careers That Occupational Therapy Grads May Go Into

A degree in occupational therapy can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Health Specialties Professors	11,540	$161,770
Occupational Therapists	9,580	$95,160

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.