St. Kate's Occupational Therapy Assistant Program

[MNomadic]

Yes, $50k is a lot of money for an Associates degree! The pay for an OTA is good ($60k is the median salary), but it would be hard to come up with that kind of cash for most people.

I'm wondering if it would be easier to get an AA or even a BALS from somewhere inexpensively, and then transfer into the OTA program and be able to take a lot fewer courses (hard to see what they require, so hard to say)?

http://catalog.stkate.edu/undergraduate/...ementstext

Other than the 4 prerequisite courses, which appear that they have to be completed or in progress in order to enter the program, there aren't many other classes that look like they could be found elsewhere.

Pre reqs:

BIOL 2400 General Anatomy and Physiology with Lab 1 4
IPE 1020 Medical Terminology 1
PSYC 1000 General Psychology 4
PSYC 2020 Lifespan Developmental Psychology 1 4

Lib art and science core reqs:

CORE 1000W The Reflective Woman 2 4
ECOL 2000 Human Ecology (or any liberal arts and science course) 2
ENGL 2100 Prose and Poetry (or any literature course) 2
or ENGL 2500 The Short Story
PHIL 2030W Healthcare Ethics 3
SSCS 2040W Power, Inequality and Social Change 4
THEO 2040W The Sacramental Life 3