BU’s Sargent College Named Nation’s Top Occupational Therapy Program in U.S. News 2024 Best Graduate Schools Rankings
Sargent College’s occupational therapy program won its third straight tops-in-the-nation shoutout in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 rankings of America’s best graduate schools. Photo by Above Summit
BU’s Sargent College Named Nation’s Top Occupational Therapy Program in U.S. News 2024 Best Graduate Schools Rankings
BU School of Public Health ranked seventh best in the country
BU’s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences retained its best-in-the-nation spot among occupational therapy (OT) programs in U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings of best graduate schools.
This year marks the third consecutive time Sargent topped its peer institutions in the OT rankings. (U.S. News grades these particular programs every four years.) The college also advanced in the 2024 rankings for its speech-language pathology program (ranked 5th best in the country, up from 10th) and physical therapy (PT) (ranked 11th, up from 20th).
Meanwhile, BU’s School of Public Health advanced one notch in the rankings, to seventh best in the nation in its category. “The School of Public Health has now long been one of the leading schools in the world,” SPH Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor Sandro Galea says, “and it is nice to see the rankings reaffirm that again this year.”
“These rankings are a testimonial to the high quality of our students and faculty,” says Jack Dennerlein, Sargent’s dean. “Our faculty are leaders in their fields—they produce high-quality research and scholarship recognized at national meetings. The faculty innovate in their curricula, creating students that are well prepared to work as health providers. Graduates of our programs are known for being adaptive to the changing nature of work in healthcare.”
The rankings impact the quality of students that apply to Boston University. Applicants pay attention to rankings.
The magazine ranked 263 OT programs, 280 speech programs, 245 PT programs, and 213 public health schools.
The rankings, based on assessments of deans and program directors at peer institutions, are important, Dennerlein says, because they “provide external validation of the pride we feel every day, working with the students creating their future potential. Second, these rankings are important for future students—that is, they matter to folks making decisions about which programs to apply to and, if admitted, attend.
“The rankings impact the quality of students that apply to Boston University. Applicants pay attention to rankings. The rankings inform students which programs to check out; as a result, admissions into these programs are very competitive.”
“These excellent rankings,” U.S. News wrote in its announcement releasing the rankings, “make Boston University eligible to display U.S. News Best Graduate Schools awards ‘badges’ (logos) to promote these programs on web sites, in advertisements, and in a variety of other media.”
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