Ranked #25 in popularity, rehabilitation & therapeutic professions is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for rehabilitation & therapeutic professions students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 278 master's degrees in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions School for Your Master's Degree
The rehabilitation master'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
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master'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 master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 master'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 easy is it for rehabilitation & therapeutic professions to pay back their student loans after receiving their master'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 master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a wonderful option for students interested in a master's degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the city of Chapel Hill.
Students who graduate with their master's from the rehabilitation program report average early career income of $48,775.
It is difficult to beat East Carolina University if you want to pursue a master's degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions. ECU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Greenville.
Master's recipients from the rehabilitation & therapeutic professions degree program at East Carolina University get $9,228 above the typical college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
Located in the large city of Winston-Salem, WSSU is a public university with a small student population.
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions master's degree recipients from Winston - Salem State University get an earnings boost of about $9,061 above the typical earnings of rehabilitation & therapeutic professions majors.
Lenoir - Rhyne University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Hickory.
Master's recipients from the rehabilitation & therapeutic professions program at Lenoir - Rhyne University earn $10,592 more than the typical graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
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).
The rehabilitation master'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.
