Accreditation

Accreditation

As of August 4, 2024, the CMU Occupational Therapy Graduate Program will be continuing under the accreditation status of Probationary Accreditation because due to non-compliance with the 2018 Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) Standard A.2.4. Academic Fieldwork Coordinator and A.2.10 Clerical and Support Staff. These citations were the result of failure to provide sufficient documentation to ACOTE in order to merit full accreditation. The Program will create a Plan of Correction (to be submitted on or before October 21, 2024) to provide additional information and documents that will demonstrate full compliance with ACOTE. 

The Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) is located at 7501 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 510E Bethseda, MD 20814. ACOTE's telephone number c/o AOTA is (301) 652-AOTA and its web address is www.acoteonline.org. Graduates of the program will be eligible to sit for the national certification examination for the occupational therapist administered by the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT). After successful completion of this exam, the individual will be an Occupational Therapist, Registered (OTR). In addition, all states require licensure in order to practice; however state licenses are usually based on the results of the NBCOT Certification Examination. Note that a felony conviction may affect a graduate's ability to sit for the NBCOT certification examination or attain state licensure.