Occupational therapy assistants are getting phased out and her school should be ashamed of itself for still offering the program if that region is saturated. She could move and find a decent paying job in her field, there’s a lot of underserved areas in the US for healthcare but it’s usually for a good reason. Very rural, far from your connections and the state doesn’t have good funding for Medicaid. My community college had the program when I was looking for a major but I chose respiratory therapy instead. My entire 3 years cost about $6,000 with me commuting back in the late ‘90’s. Even today one could still cover it with just the federal loans and a part time job if you lived at home. Her school sounds like a for profit scam.
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