Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #3 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in District of Columbia to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of rehabilitation & therapeutic professions. Combined, these schools handed out 62 doctor's degrees in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 rehabilitation & therapeutic professions students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other rehabilitation & therapeutic professions 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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for rehabilitation & therapeutic professions to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
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 colleges for rehabilitation & therapeutic professions students working on their doctor's degree.
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 District of Columbia list to help you make the college decision.
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Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions has to check out George Washington University. Located in the large city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their doctorate from the rehabilitation program report average early career income of $75,515.
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).
