Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions at University of Maryland Eastern Shore

If you plan to study rehabilitation and therapeutic professions, take a look at what University of Maryland Eastern Shore has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UMES is located in Princess Anne, Maryland and approximately 2,646 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 19 rehabilitation majors received their bachelor's degree from UMES.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions section at the bottom of this page.

UMES Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Rehabilitation
• Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation
• Doctorate Degree in Rehabilitation

UMES Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks rehabilitation programs across the country. The following shows how UMES performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The rehabilitation major at UMES is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	62
Best Rehabilitation Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	94
Best Value Rehabilitation Professions Master’s Degree Schools	140
	141
Most Focused Rehabilitation Professions Master’s Degree Schools	147
	154
Best Rehabilitation Professions Master’s Degree Schools	199
Best Rehabilitation Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools	204
Most Popular Rehabilitation Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools	224
Most Popular Rehabilitation Professions Master’s Degree Schools	225
Best Value Rehabilitation Professions Schools	228
	245
Best Rehabilitation Professions Schools	311

In 2021, 6 students received their master’s degree in rehabilitation from UMES. This makes it the #225 most popular school for rehabilitation master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 25 students who received their doctoral degrees in rehabilitation, making the school the #224 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Earnings of UMES Rehabilitation Graduates

The median salary of rehabilitation students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMES is $33,921. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 10% higher than the national average of $30,749 for all rehabilitation bachelor's degree recipients.

Rehabilitation Student Demographics at UMES

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the rehabilitation majors at University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

UMES Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Bachelor’s Program

Of the 19 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions from UMES in 2020-2021, 26% were men and 74% were women. The typical rehabilitation bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% men. So male students are more repesented at UMES since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 69% more racial-ethnic minorities in its rehabilitation bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Maryland Eastern Shore with a bachelor's in rehabilitation.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

UMES Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Master’s Program

Of the 6 students who earned a master's degree in Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions from UMES in 2020-2021, 17% were men and 83% were women.

In the rehabilitation master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 24% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Maryland Eastern Shore with a master's in rehabilitation.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UMES also has a doctoral program available in rehabilitation. In 2021, 25 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences

Careers That Rehabilitation Grads May Go Into

A degree in rehabilitation can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MD, the home state for University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Physical Therapists	4,860	$85,170
Engineers	4,530	$118,420
Occupational Therapists	3,370	$89,230
Rehabilitation Counselors	2,140	$42,060
Therapists	1,070	$54,800

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.