Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions earn a median of $55,792 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $40,044 and $73,848. We rank the 58 U.S. colleges whose Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 3,828 graduates in all. That puts Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions at #82 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
Northeastern University, in Massachusetts, leads at $81,320, 42% above the median ranked school ($57,194). The gap between schools is wide: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $49,704 and $70,250, and the lowest earns $40,152, so for this major the school you graduate from matters a lot. 30 of the 58 ranked schools (52%) match or beat the national median.
The top 20 mix sectors: 9 public, 11 private nonprofit and 0 for-profit. Massachusetts places 5 schools in the top 20, ahead of Michigan (3).
The top 20 schools cost more than most: a median net price of $23,666 a year, against $17,452 across all 58 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $25,449 in federal loans, about 35% of one year of earnings. Measured against a typical high-school graduate in the same state, the median top-20 school recovers its net cost in about 2.7 years.
Showing the top 50 of 58 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | Northeastern University Boston, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $81,320 | 95 | $27,479 | $30,915 | 3.1 |
| 2 | University of Hartford West Hartford, CT Private nonprofit · 4-year | $78,761 | 52 | $23,000 | $30,282 | 3.0 |
| 3 | Towson University Towson, MD Public · 4-year | $77,953 | 40 | $23,345 | $17,413 | 1.7 |
| 4 | CUNY York College Jamaica, NY Public · 4-year | $77,201 | 36 † | — | $4,456 | 0.4 |
| 5 | Ithaca College Ithaca, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $76,766 | 65 | $25,449 | $33,926 | 3.3 |
| 6 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA Public · 4-year | $75,950 | 151 | $24,375 | $30,434 | 3.1 |
| 7 | Worcester State University Worcester, MA Public · 4-year | $74,386 | 28 † | $25,000 | $13,381 | 1.6 |
| 8 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell Lowell, MA Public · 4-year | $72,958 | 109 | $26,147 | $17,163 | 2.2 |
| 9 | Saint Francis University Loretto, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $72,821 | 109 | $29,750 | $23,526 | 2.6 |
| 10 | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham, NH Public · 4-year | $72,625 | 87 | $27,000 | $23,805 | 3.1 |
| 11 | Boston University Boston, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $72,566 | 32 † | $25,000 | $24,402 | 3.1 |
| 12 | Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $72,059 | 97 | $27,000 | $37,730 | 4.2 |
| 13 | Husson University Bangor, ME Private nonprofit · 4-year | $71,529 | 55 | $27,000 | $21,005 | 2.5 |
| 14 | Saint Louis University Saint Louis, MO Private nonprofit · 4-year | $70,351 | 71 | $25,247 | $24,398 | 2.7 |
| 15 | Keuka College Keuka Park, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $70,306 | 61 | $27,000 | $24,338 | 2.8 |
| 16 | Saginaw Valley State University University Center, MI Public · 4-year | $70,081 | 35 † | $17,500 | $10,775 | 1.2 |
| 17 | Springfield College Springfield, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $69,355 | 32 † | $27,000 | $30,587 | 4.3 |
| 18 | Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI Public · 4-year | $68,351 | 67 | $25,745 | $15,273 | 1.8 |
| 19 | Eastern Kentucky University Richmond, KY Public · 4-year | $66,530 | 107 | $15,950 | $11,040 | 1.4 |
| 20 | Baker College Owosso, MI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $65,981 | 60 | $24,402 | $13,157 | 1.7 |
| 21 | Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA Public · 4-year | $65,037 | 28 † | $19,500 | $15,267 | 2.0 |
| 22 | Concordia University-Wisconsin Mequon, WI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $64,784 | 60 | $22,695 | $36,201 | 5.3 |
| 23 | College of Saint Mary Omaha, NE Private nonprofit · 4-year | $64,401 | 78 | $27,000 | $16,590 | 2.4 |
| 24 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI Public · 4-year | $63,061 | 62 | $21,500 | $17,354 | 2.7 |
| 25 | D'Youville University Buffalo, NY Private nonprofit · 4-year | $61,801 | 44 | $26,000 | $20,433 | 3.1 |
| 26 | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse La Crosse, WI Public · 4-year | $58,908 | 89 | $20,000 | $16,210 | 3.0 |
| 27 | University of the Incarnate Word San Antonio, TX Private nonprofit · 4-year | $58,059 | 32 † | $23,857 | $22,775 | 3.9 |
| 28 | California State University-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Public · 4-year | $57,695 | 86 | $12,500 | $3,967 | 0.8 |
| 29 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI Public · 4-year | $57,596 | 49 | $23,125 | $15,014 | 3.0 |
| 30 | Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale, FL Private nonprofit · 4-year | $56,791 | 33 † | $43,626 | $30,498 | 5.4 |
| 31 | Assumption University Worcester, MA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $54,822 | 94 | $27,000 | $29,498 | 8.6 |
| 32 | University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL Public · 4-year | $54,584 | 32 † | $14,000 | $10,974 | 2.4 |
| 33 | Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Slippery Rock, PA Public · 4-year | $52,743 | 63 | $27,000 | $19,608 | 4.8 |
| 34 | State University of New York at Cortland Cortland, NY Public · 4-year | $52,654 | 34 † | $25,000 | $22,345 | 5.3 |
| 35 | University of Toledo Toledo, OH Public · 4-year | $52,613 | 37 † | $24,937 | $17,249 | 4.2 |
| 36 | University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, NC Public · 4-year | $51,696 | 52 | $19,500 | $20,109 | 4.6 |
| 37 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA Public · 4-year | $51,635 | 214 | $26,000 | $32,875 | 8.7 |
| 38 | CUNY Lehman College Bronx, NY Public · 4-year | $51,602 | 53 | $9,142 | $3,148 | 0.8 |
| 39 | Temple University Philadelphia, PA Public · 4-year | $51,599 | 97 | $26,000 | $28,198 | 7.5 |
| 40 | University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD Public · 4-year | $51,554 | 29 † | $29,000 | $13,338 | 3.8 |
| 41 | University of Wisconsin-Stout Menomonie, WI Public · 4-year | $51,545 | 30 † | $22,875 | $17,490 | 5.0 |
| 42 | Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI Public · 4-year | $50,291 | 26 † | $26,000 | $16,317 | 4.2 |
| 43 | Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC Public · 4-year | $49,898 | 40 | $23,187 | $13,315 | 3.4 |
| 44 | Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI Public · 4-year | $49,639 | 81 | $26,324 | $17,597 | 4.7 |
| 45 | Marywood University Scranton, PA Private nonprofit · 4-year | $49,106 | 37 † | $25,500 | $23,388 | 7.4 |
| 46 | University of Akron Main Campus Akron, OH Public · 4-year | $49,049 | 44 | $23,931 | $13,946 | 4.3 |
| 47 | East Carolina University Greenville, NC Public · 4-year | $49,029 | 75 | $24,974 | $15,739 | 4.2 |
| 48 | University of Maine at Farmington Farmington, ME Public · 4-year | $48,191 | 29 † | — | $16,857 | 6.6 |
| 49 | Mount Mary University Milwaukee, WI Private nonprofit · 4-year | $47,827 | 36 † | $26,000 | $20,144 | 7.9 |
| 50 | Wright State University-Main Campus Dayton, OH Public · 4-year | $47,355 | 37 † | $27,867 | $15,415 | 5.5 |
How this ranking is built
A school appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Which programs count
- Main campuses only, one entry per institution. Scorecard reports program outcomes for the whole six-digit federal ID (OPEID6), so branch campuses share their parent’s numbers and are not listed twice.
- Only bachelor's degree programs in Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (CIP 5123, the four-digit code Scorecard uses to group related programs).
- At least 25 graduates in the earnings sample. Smaller samples are left out because their medians swing too much and the counts carry a little privacy noise.
- A major gets a page only when at least 20 schools qualify. This one has 58.
- Ranked by median earnings 4 years after completing, highest first. Ties go to the larger sample, then to the school name.
- Schools missing earnings or a sample size are left out rather than estimated.
- What the numbers mean
- Earnings: median annual earnings of graduates four years after completing. The cohort completed in academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19 and was measured in calendar years 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.
- Who is counted: graduates who received federal student aid (Title IV grants or loans), and only those who were working and not enrolled in more school that year. Graduates without federal aid, those who went on to further study and those with no earnings are not in the median.
- Scorecard adds privacy noise to counts and medians and hides values it cannot protect, so a gap of a few percent between two schools is not meaningful.
- Graduates: the number of graduates in that earnings sample. A † marks fewer than 40, where the figure is less precise.
- Debt: median federal loan debt (Stafford and Grad PLUS loans disbursed at that school) of graduates who borrowed, from the 2018-19 and 2019-20 completers. Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Net price: average yearly cost after grants and scholarships for the whole institution, not this major, academic year 2023-24.
- Payback: 4 years of net price divided by how much these earnings exceed a high-school graduate’s in the school’s state. Shown only when that gap is at least $2,000, the same formula as the rest of the site.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data, June 2026 release.
Top states for Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions earnings
Median of the school medians for states with at least 3 ranked schools. The best school in each state is shown.
| State | Median earnings | Ranked schools | Top school |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | $72,566 | 7 | Northeastern University |
| New York | $66,054 | 6 | CUNY York College |
| Wisconsin | $58,252 | 6 | Concordia University-Wisconsin |
| Michigan | $58,136 | 6 | Saginaw Valley State University |
| Pennsylvania | $52,743 | 7 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus |
| North Carolina | $49,464 | 4 | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| Ohio | $49,049 | 3 | University of Toledo |
| Texas | $45,354 | 3 | University of the Incarnate Word |
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