Occupational Therapy at The University of Texas at El Paso

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

UTEP is located in El Paso, Texas and approximately 24,879 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.

UTEP Occupational Therapy Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy

UTEP Occupational Therapy Rankings

Occupational Therapy Student Demographics at UTEP

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

UTEP Occupational Therapy Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 14% of occupational therapy master's degrees went to men and 86% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 9% men graduate in occupational therapy each year. UTEP does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 5% more men than average.

In the occupational therapy master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 77% of degree recipients. That is 51% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling
• Physical Therapy/Therapist
• Rehabilitation Science

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 at El Paso.

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 Adrian Garcia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.