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2023 Best Value Rehabilitation Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$9,570 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$50,853 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Graduate Certificate School for You

Out of the majors we analyze each year, rehabilitation and therapeutic professions was ranked 5th in California. In fact, 3,157 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

With all the healthcare programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

Check out the rehabilitation graduate certificate programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Graduate Certificate School

#1

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA

Our 2023 rankings named San Diego State University the best value school in California for rehabilitation and therapeutic professions students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of San Diego, SDSU is a public school with a very large student population.

SDSU graduate students pay an average of $9,570 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions at San Diego State University Report

Best Value Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Oregon 165
Washington 274
Nevada 117

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 values are for the top school 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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