Sacred Heart University

At Sacred Heart University, we offer a values-based educational approach to occupational therapy that is dynamic, engaging and transformative, led by exceptional faculty in state-of-the-art learning environments.

Why Occupational Therapy?

Occupational therapy is a vibrant, growing profession that makes it possible for people to participate fully in their lives.  Occupational therapists change lives. Occupational therapy improves the ability of individuals, groups, and populations to access and participate in the everyday activities and occupations they want, need, and are expected to do each day. When a person is challenged with a physical or mental health difficulty, occupational therapists ask “What matters to you? What is important to you?”.  Occupational therapy is a client centered, evidenced-based profession that supports people of all ages, individuals, groups or populations participate in everyday activities and occupations that are meaningful and valuable to the client.   

Why Earn Your Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy at Sacred Heart?

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.