In our five-year BS/MSOT program, you will earn a bachelor's degree in Health Sciences, which provides the prerequisite science and general education courses that prepare you to move into the professional phase of the program. You will also have two pre-occupational therapy courses during your sophomore and junior years that will give you a preview of OT and help you start thinking about your career.
Once accepted into the combined BS/MSOT program, you will move directly from the undergraduate program into the master's degree professional program without having to re-apply, provided you maintain the required grade point average of 3.0.
The professional program begins during your fourth year and provides a series of foundational science courses, skills laboratories and fieldwork. You will have several integrated fieldwork experiences with specific populations from pediatrics to older adults. The culminating fieldwork experiences are full-time fieldwork during the last semester of the professional program. Graduates of the program will be eligible to sit for the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) exam to become a licensed Occupational Therapist.
Learn more about Occupational Therapy at UHart in this short video with Program Director Sarah Psillas:

