What Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions Graduates Earn

Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)

Nothing on this page is a survey response or a recruiter's claim: the $38,413 year-one median and the $53,917 year-five median for Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions come from federal earnings records pooled across 285 bachelor's programs. The headline median weights programs by graduates counted (3,092 at year one); the second column is the unweighted median program, printed so the method stays visible.

Earnings in this field climb $15,504 between the first and fifth year, a 40% rise that trails the all-fields pattern (the median field in this dataset pays $45,010 at year one and $65,763 at year five). Early-career growth this shape usually means the first job is a foothold: licensure, a portfolio, or a first promotion does the heavy lifting.

By Pell status, the year-one medians for Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions are $37,812 (received Pell) and $39,961 (did not), $2,149 apart. The split is a reminder that a field median averages over very different starting points; the institution a student picks inside the field moves their personal figure more than the field label does.

Inside its own CIP family, Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions ranks 14 of 14 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $64,868. Its closest sibling is Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions at $55,054, above this field's $53,917. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions stands number 147 by five-year earnings and number 148 by first-year earnings, and number 146 from the lowest median debt. Those three ranks together are the field's fingerprint: high earn rank with a low debt rank is the combination students are actually shopping for, and this field's spread between them is 1 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Across the 67 programs that report debt for Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions, the median graduate owes $23,375. Set beside the $38,413 year-one median, the debt is 61% of first-year gross earnings, about 7.3 months of pay before tax. Repaid on the standard 10-year schedule at 6.52%, it costs $266 monthly and $8,504 in interest. The student loan payoff calculator replays that schedule with your numbers, and the college ROI calculator weighs the full cost against the earnings table above.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

One field, many markets: the five-year median for Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions is $53,917 nationally, yet the strongest programs below run far ahead of it. The ranking keeps a 30-graduate floor under every entry, and Northeastern University heads the list at $89,568.

High program medians concentrate in high-wage metros and selective intakes, so read $89,568 as a market fact before reading it as a quality verdict. Costs for the same programs are checkable in the degree cost calculator and the net price estimator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 9.2% of the 5,203 graduates counted at five years, so the top of the table is a thin slice and not the field's center; and the leading program's five-year median of $89,568 sits 66% above the national field median of $53,917. Its median debt, $29,000, runs above the field median of $23,375, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.