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2023 Best Value Rehabilitation Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

38 Colleges
$26,071 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$31,548 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Bachelor's Degree School for You

With 29,833 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, rehabilitation and therapeutic professions is the #6 most popular major in the United States.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Healthcare Degree Search has developed this Best Value Rehabilitation Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. This report analyzed 38 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for rehabilitation students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Top 10 Best Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for rehabilitation and therapeutic professions students working on their bachelor’s degree. SRU is a medium-sized public school located in the town of Slippery Rock.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SRU are $14,615 per year. On average, rehabilitation graduates from SRU take out $26,239 in student loans while working on their Bachelor's Degree. The average monthly payment of a loan this size is about $172, assuming that the borrower is on a 10-year repayment plan.

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#2

Kean University

Union, NJ

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Kean University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Rehabilitation Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Kean is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Union.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Kean are $19,771 per year.

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#3

Lehman College

Bronx, NY

Out of the 38 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lehman College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Lehman is a fairly large public school located in the city of Bronx.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Lehman are $15,360 a year. The average amount in student loans that rehabilitation majors at Lehman take out while working on their Bachelor's Degree is $10,677.

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#4

Towson University

Towson, MD

Out of the 38 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Towson University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Towson, Towson is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Towson are $25,516 a year. Rehabilitation majors at Towson take out an average of $23,686 in student loans while working on their Bachelor's Degree.

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#5

Coppin State University

Baltimore, MD

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Coppin State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Rehabilitation Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in the city of Baltimore, Coppin is a public college with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Coppin are $13,334 per year.

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West Chester University of Pennsylvania ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Rehabilitation Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in the large suburb of West Chester, WCUPA is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at WCUPA are $22,247 a year.

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University of Maryland Eastern Shore ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Rehabilitation Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in the town of Princess Anne, UMES is a public school with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UMES are $19,343 per year. This translates to an average monthly loan payment of $174, based on a 10-year repayment plan.

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Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Rehabilitation Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. IUP is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Indiana.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at IUP are $18,897 per year.

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#9

Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown, PA

Elizabethtown College landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value bachelor’s degree rehabilitation and therapeutic professions programs. Etown is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Elizabethtown.

Etown undergraduate students pay an average of $34,600 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Etown is ranked #1 for overall quality for rehabilitation in the Middle Atlantic Region .

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#10

SUNY Cortland

Cortland, NY

SUNY Cortland landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value bachelor’s degree rehabilitation and therapeutic professions programs. Located in the town of Cortland, SUNY Cortland is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at SUNY Cortland are $18,725 a year.

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Best Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Colleges by State

Explore the best rehabilitation and therapeutic professions schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 2,807
Pennsylvania 3,183
Maryland 353
New Jersey 453
District of Columbia 172
Delaware 103

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, rehabilitation and therapeutic professions has other similar majors worth exploring.

Rehabilitation Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Physical Therapy/Therapist 13,655
Occupational Therapy 9,958
Rehabilitation Science 1,161
Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling 1,046
Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy 870
Art Therapy 858
Other Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions 837
Music Therapy 665
Orthotist/Prosthetist 335
Assistive/Augmentative Technology and Rehabilitation Engineering 117
Kinesiotherapy/Kinesiotherapist 110
Animal-Assisted Therapy 85
Play Therapy 56
Dance Therapy 52
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions, General 28

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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