Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions at University of Utah

If you plan to study rehabilitation and therapeutic professions, take a look at what University of Utah has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

U of U is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and approximately 33,081 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 33 students received their master's degree in rehabilitation.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions section at the bottom of this page.

U of U Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation
• Doctorate Degree in Rehabilitation

Online Classes Are Available at U of U

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

U of U does offer online education options in rehabilitation for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

U of U Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Rankings

There were 58 students who received their doctoral degrees in rehabilitation, making the school the #90 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Rehabilitation Student Demographics at U of U

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the rehabilitation majors at University of Utah.

U of U Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 33 students earned a master's degree in rehabilitation from U of U. About 79% of these graduates were women and the other 21% were men.

Of the students who received a rehabilitation master's degree from U of U, 79% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	26
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Bioethics/Medical Ethics
• Other Health Professions
• Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science
• Health Sciences & Services
• Medical Illustration & Informatics

Careers That Rehabilitation Grads May Go Into

A degree in rehabilitation can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for UT, the home state for University of Utah.

Occupation	Jobs in UT	Average Salary in UT
Health Specialties Professors	2,120	$141,550
Physical Therapists	1,790	$85,940
Engineers	1,160	$89,810
Occupational Therapists	900	$85,300
Medical Appliance Technicians	620	$34,840

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 University of Utah under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.