Occupational Therapy at East Carolina University

If you plan to study occupational therapy/therapist, take a look at what East Carolina University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and approximately 28,798 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Occupational Therapy section at the bottom of this page.

ECU Occupational Therapy Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy

ECU Occupational Therapy Rankings

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Occupational Therapy Student Demographics at ECU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the occupational therapy majors at East Carolina University.

ECU Occupational Therapy Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 27 occupational therapy majors earned their master's degree from ECU. Of these graduates, 4% were men and 96% were women.

Of the students who received a occupational therapy master's degree from ECU, 89% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from East Carolina University with a master's in occupational therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	24
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Rehabilitation Science
• Physical Therapy/Therapist
• Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling
• Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy

Careers That Occupational Therapy Grads May Go Into

A degree in occupational therapy can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NC, the home state for East Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Health Specialties Professors	10,090	$134,300
Occupational Therapists	3,470	$84,390

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.