2025 Best Occupational Therapy Doctor's Degree Schools in Nebraska

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Nebraska to determine which ones were the best for occupational therapy students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 149 doctor's degrees in occupational therapy during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to occupational therapy students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other occupational therapy students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized occupational therapy related body.

Our full 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Occupational Therapy Doctor's Degree Schools in Nebraska ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Occupational Therapy in Nebraska

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in occupational therapy.

Top Nebraska Schools for a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy

1

Creighton University
Omaha, NE

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

113 Annual Graduates

Creighton University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in occupational therapy. Located in the city of Omaha, Creighton is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in occupational therapy from Creighton University

2

College of Saint Mary
Omaha, NE

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

36 Annual Graduates

College of Saint Mary is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in occupational therapy. Saint Mary is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Omaha.More information about a doctorate in occupational therapy from College of Saint Mary

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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.