Occupational Therapy at The University of Texas Medical Branch

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

UTMB Galveston is located in Galveston, Texas and approximately 3,458 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.

UTMB Galveston Occupational Therapy Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Doctorate Degree in Occupational Therapy

UTMB Galveston Occupational Therapy Rankings

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There were 16 students who received their doctoral degrees in occupational therapy, making the school the #40 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Occupational Therapy Student Demographics at UTMB Galveston

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the occupational therapy majors at The University of Texas Medical Branch.

UTMB Galveston Occupational Therapy Master’s Program

The occupational therapy program at UTMB Galveston awarded 60 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 5% of these degrees went to men with the other 95% going to women.

Of the students who received a occupational therapy master's degree from UTMB Galveston, 68% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the occupational therapy master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 30% of degree recipients. That is 7% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	41
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Physical Therapy/Therapist

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 TX, the home state for The University of Texas Medical Branch.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Health Specialties Professors	13,930	$139,540
Occupational Therapists	9,250	$89,360

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 Nsaum75 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.