{"id":206865,"date":"2026-04-07T23:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/boston-university-ot-program-ranks-top-in-its-class-for-fifth-straight-year-by-u-s-news-world-report-boston-university\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:22:29","slug":"boston-university-ot-program-ranks-top-in-its-class-for-fifth-straight-year-by-u-s-news-world-report-boston-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/boston-university-ot-program-ranks-top-in-its-class-for-fifth-straight-year-by-u-s-news-world-report-boston-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston University OT Program Ranks Top in Its Class for Fifth Straight Year by U.S. News & World Report – Boston University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston University\u2019s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences retained U.S. News & World Report\u2019<\/em>s nod as the best occupational therapy program in the United States, while other BU schools boast programs that are among the top 10 in their fields. Photo by Above Summit for Boston University Photography.
Boston University\u2019s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences retained its nation-topping ranking for occupational therapy instruction in U.S. News & World Report<\/em>\u2019s <\/em>2026 evaluation of graduate school programs. It\u2019s the fifth consecutive year that the program has claimed the first spot in the magazine\u2019s rankings.
A half-dozen other BU programs cracked the top 10 in their respective disciplines:
\u201cSargent has a long history of having top-ranked programs,\u201d says Gloria Waters, BU provost, chief academic officer, and former dean of Sargent. \u201cIt is rewarding to see the occupational therapy program at the top of the rankings again. This recognition reflects the program\u2019s faculty, support staff, and the college\u2019s commitment to creating impactful educational experiences that translate into real-world outcomes.”
Of the high rankings for the other University programs, Waters says, \u201cFaculty and staff are creating exceptional educational experiences across BU’s schools and colleges every day. Their efforts are not only reflected in national rankings like these, but in the quality of the students that go on to lead in their chosen fields.\u201d 
Depending on the discipline it is evaluating, U.S. News <\/em>uses different assessment methodologies. For rankings of programs in sciences, social sciences, humanities, and health, the magazine relies on peer assessment surveys. 
By contrast, for schools of business, education, engineering, law, medicine, and nursing, the rankings are based on two types of data, U.S. News <\/em>says: \u201cexpert opinion about program excellence, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s academic productivity and postgraduate outcomes.\u201d Last fall and early this year, the magazine sent schools the statistical surveys and sent peer assessments to academics and professionals in the fields being evaluated.
The peer assessments asked deans, program directors, and senior faculty to rank the academic quality of programs in their disciplines, from 5 (outstanding) to 1 (marginal). U.S. News <\/em>buttressed those evaluations with surveys of professionals hiring or working with recent graduates in certain fields.
Boston University OT Program Ranks Top in Its Class for Fifth Straight Year by U.S. News & World Report
Boston University\u2019s Alumni Magazine
News, Research, Community
Pioneering Research from Boston University<\/p>\n

source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston University\u2019s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences retained U.S. News & World Report\u2019s nod as the best occupational therapy program in the United States, while other BU schools boast programs that are among the top 10 in their fields. Photo by Above Summit for Boston University Photography.Boston University\u2019s Sargent College of Health & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}