If you're driven by helping others live life to the fullest, occupational therapy (OT) could be the profession for you. An Occupational Therapist helps clients develop and enhance activities of daily living so they can achieve success in motor, social, personal, academic, or vocational pursuits. To practice as an occupational therapist, you must first earn a graduate degree (MOT or OTD). UIndy's pre-occupational therapy concentration gives you the classroom and hands-on experiences to prepare you for the graduate years. Pre-occupational therapy is a concentration that will add to your chosen major, setting you on a path to a satisfying career.
Pre-occupational therapy is an area of concentration, which you can add to many majors. Following are some of the most beneficial majors for someone who wants to become an occupational therapist.
The course work at UIndy not only included the rigor and the preparation I needed to apply to grad school, but also gave me the foundational concepts I needed to be a successful graduate student.
This option allows you to be granted permission to start occupational therapy coursework in your fourth year after the completion of all undergraduate core and major requirements, excluding those that overlap with the OT curriculum. Students are not officially accepted to the OTD program until they have received their bachelor’s degree and completed two semesters of OT coursework. To qualify for this option, you must:
This unique option is for incoming freshmen who have declared they wish to enter the occupational therapy program post graduation in conjunction with any undergraduate major. With acceptance into the Early Assurance Admission program and fulfillment of all program criteria, you will be guaranteed admission into our entry-level Occupational Therapy Doctorate (OTD) program. To be considered for the Early Assurance Admission Program, candidates must be admitted into any undergraduate degree program by the University of Indianapolis and meet the following:
Students will be reviewed for early assurance to the OTD three times per year in December, January, and February. Students will be notified by mail if they are awarded an early assurance offer and will need to return the intent form by the date noted in the letter in order to secure the early assurance offer. Once admitted to the Early Assurance Admission Program, students must maintain specific academic standards to keep their guaranteed status into the graduate program. These standards include:
These curriculum guides outline the different classes you will need to take as a Pre-Occupational Therapy major. The general education guide provides a list of all the classes you need in order to fulfill UIndy’s general education requirements. The Pre-Occupational Therapy guide lists all of the classes you will need to take in order to fulfill the major’s requirements. Be sure to take a look at both guides in order to get a complete picture of what classes you'll take at UIndy.