Program Overview

When you earn your Master of Science in Occupational Therapy at SHU, you will learn to address the spiritual, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive needs of your clients, and to design occupation-based interventions that enable clients to meaningfully participate in their own work, school, play, home, society, and community lives.

The OT curriculum combines active learning with clinical application utilizing a problem-based learning approach that is designed to bridge course content with practice by having students engage in the clinical reasoning process in small group tutorials led by expert faculty members.

Our superb faculty include authors, recognized scholars, advocates, and expert practitioners. Year after year, program evaluation results identify faculty excellence, availability, and relationships with students as our most outstanding outcome. Sacred Heart University graduates perform extremely well on the National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapy exam. Also visit Outcomes and Assessments.