If you pursue a doctor's degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #3 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 reviewed 6 schools in Indiana to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of rehabilitation & therapeutic professions. Combined, these schools handed out 428 doctor's degrees in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of rehabilitation & therapeutic professions for getting your doctor's degree school matters. 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 good 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.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 rehabilitation & therapeutic professions students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of rehabilitation & therapeutic professions 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.
Student Debt - How much debt rehabilitation & therapeutic professions students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized rehabilitation & therapeutic professions related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for rehabilitation & therapeutic professions students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Indiana list to help you make the college decision.
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Indiana Wesleyan University is a great choice for students pursuing a doctor's degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions. Located in the distant town of Marion, IWU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Doctorate graduates who receive their degree from the rehabilitation program make around $61,799 in the first couple years of their career.
Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions needs to check out Indiana State University. Indiana State is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Terre Haute.
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions doctor's degree recipients from Indiana State University get an earnings boost of around $6,194 above the average income of rehabilitation & therapeutic professions majors.
Located in the city of Evansville, UE is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions doctor's degree recipients from University of Evansville get an earnings boost of around $3,868 above the average income of rehabilitation & therapeutic professions graduates.
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).