Occupational Therapy at University of Alabama at Birmingham

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

UAB is located in Birmingham, Alabama and approximately 22,563 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.

UAB Occupational Therapy Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy

Online Classes Are Available at UAB

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UAB offers distance education options for occupational therapy at the following degree levels:

UAB Occupational Therapy Rankings

There were 7 students who received their doctoral degrees in occupational therapy, making the school the #53 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Occupational Therapy Student Demographics at UAB

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

UAB Occupational Therapy Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 11% of occupational therapy master's degrees went to men and 89% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 9% men graduate in occupational therapy each year. UAB does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 2% more men than average.

Of the students who received a occupational therapy master's degree from UAB, 79% 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 University of Alabama at Birmingham with a master's in occupational therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	48
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Other Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions
• 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 AL, the home state for University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Health Specialties Professors	1,960	$108,310
Occupational Therapists	1,260	$83,810

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 Lee Adlaf under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.