2025 Best Occupational Therapy Doctor's Degree Schools in New York

If you pursue a doctor's degree in occupational therapy, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #15 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Occupational Therapy Doctor's Degree Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 68 doctor's degrees in occupational therapy during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Occupational Therapy School for Your Doctor's Degree

The occupational therapy doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on occupational therapy students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of occupational therapy students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized occupational therapy related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for occupational therapy students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Occupational Therapy Schools

The occupational therapy school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Occupational Therapy Doctor's Degree Schools in New York.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Occupational Therapy in New York

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in occupational therapy.

Top New York Schools for a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy

1

New York University
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

7 Annual Graduates

New York University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in occupational therapy. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in occupational therapy from New York University

2

New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

27 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in occupational therapy has to look into New York Institute of Technology. NYIT is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the rural area of Old Westbury.More information about a doctorate in occupational therapy from New York Institute of Technology

3

Russell Sage College
Troy, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

8 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in occupational therapy needs to take a look at Russell Sage College. Russel Sage is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Troy.More information about a doctorate in occupational therapy from Russell Sage College

Best Occupational Therapy Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Occupational Therapy Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	311	219
Maryland	190	5
New Jersey	165	0
District of Columbia	143	11

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Rankings in Majors Related to Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy is one of 16 different types of Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions programs to choose from.

Most Popular Majors Related to Occupational Therapy

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Physical Therapy/Therapist	1,046
Rehabilitation Science	1

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver. More about our data sources and methodologies.