OT School that does not require a Bachelors Degree

[Kate829]

Is there any schools that does not require a Bachelors degree. I found one its called Brenau University in Georgia. Also is there any schools that have a BS/MS Dual program. Thanks guys.

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[danceaway]

Off the top of my head, I know Sage College in NY and Salem State in MA have combined BS/MS programs. Here is a website that might be helpful:
http://www.aota.org/Educate/Schools/EntryLevelOT/38119.aspx
Under each program it describes whether it's an entry level masters or a combined program.

Good luck!

 

[Whistle Pig]

Washington U/St. Louis ... w/ the caveat that they have agreements w/ 26 undergrad schools where students get a modest "bump" in application assessment and are potentially admissable after 3 years of undergrad school. I don't know if they allow/consider students from non-agreement schools. This is sorta like a 3-2 engineering program in which the undergrad degree is awarded after year #1 @ Wash U.

And I think places including St. Francis, Duquesne and I'd speculate other institutions allow transition into the program after several years (3, maybe 2?) as pre-OTers.

 

[gialuan]

SUNY Stonybrook and CUNY York both have BS/MS programs

 

[lizzo76]

Lots of programs are combined BS/MS degree programs (which is, by the way, what the Brenau program is)... University of New Hampshire... University of New England... actually, probably MOST programs have that option or something similar, although that point is arguable. BU has a combined BS in Therapeutic Studies and MS in OT. In any case, it was only very recently (I want to say 2007) that the MS became the entry point into the profession. At that point a lot of BS programs turned into 5-year BS/MS combined programs. You won't find a masters-only program for those without bachelors degrees (obviously since a masters program is meant to be post-undergraduate) but there are plenty of longer programs where you complete a bachelors first and then do an extra year or so to get the masters.

 

[ot2b]

University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, Texas Tech Health Science Center, and Texas Women's Dallas campus do not require a bachelor's degree for admission.

 

[Whistle Pig]

Remember tho ... requirements and realities are often vastly different things. Ask about this before leaping ...

Wash U. has those 26 agreements, but the admissions staff acknowledge they count for little or nothing.

 

[lizzo76]

Just to clarify, OP, since your original question made me wonder what a little about what you were looking for - I don't think there is a single program for OT (meaning to become OTR, not COTA) which won't require you to get a bachelors degree along the way. There's no 2-year program for people without bachelors degrees to be able to sit for the exam. (I mean aside from 3-2 programs, which you'd pretty much need to be focused on from the start of undergrad.) There are no programs for people with no college or little college to just spend 2 years and become occupational therapists. You can't bypass the bachelors degree, but you can enter a long program and get both it and the masters.