Pre-Occupational Therapy
Available as a pre-professional advising track
Occupational therapists treat injured, ill or disabled patients to help them recover and hone the skills they'll need for daily life. This important therapy can include working with patients on all types of functions, from using a computer to caring for their everyday needs such as dressing, cooking and eating.
Here at Roanoke College, we offer a rigorous preparation in the sciences, along with a strong liberal arts background and access to clinical experiences and research opportunities. That give our students an edge in gaining admission to top-quality graduate programs across the country.
Learn By Doing
Internships give you the experience you need to get into great grad schools
We've established relationships with internship and placement sponsors in a wide range of medical organizations. Our students have completed internships at organizations such as:
- Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare
- Brandon Animal Hospital
- Carilion Community Hospital
- Child Abuse Prevention Council
- Lewis-Gale Clinic
- Merck Laboratories
- Physicians to Children
- Q-Biochem, LLC
- Thompson's Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center
The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects the demand for occupational therapists to grow by 14% from 2021-2031, much faster than the average for all occupations.
What Makes Roanoke Different?
Facilities
Cutting-Edge Facilities
Our state-of-the-art Athletic Training room serves our athletes while providing a venue for hands-on classroom experiences and internships.
The Health and Human Peformance Lab is fully-equipped with everything you need to explore clinical exercise science, movement science, and fitness and wellness. Classroom, small-group, and one-on-one experiences are tailored to support skills building in a variety of subfields, including athlete performance testing, functional protocols for special populations, rehabilitative methods, motion analysis, and explorations in epidemiology.
The Cregger Center is the home of the Belk Fitness Center and the Roanoke College Athletic Training Program. It has two classrooms, an instructional technology classroom, the Athletic Department and an indoor track in the Fieldhouse.
Modern classrooms feature bright, airy spaces conducive to collaborative, hands-on learning.
A Roanoke student uses the latest portable equipment to measure metabolic response to physical activity.
News
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The final interior beam of the center’s new building was put in place July 23.
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Radford University’s competitive Master of Science in athletic training program has agreed to reserve seats for Roanoke College students.
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Market on Melrose is the result of nine years of research and development led by Professor Liz Ackley and Roanoke College’s Center for Community Health Innovation.
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Health Careers Advising Board
A team of faculty advisors dedicated to supporting students pursuing healthcare professions
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Join us for an insightful look at the science, trends, and health research into cannabis across the lifespan.
- Date:
- March 23, 2026
- Time:
- 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
- Location:
Virtual
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Enhancing our children's genes: moral obligation or travesty? In this year's Crumley Lecture, sponsored by the Benne Center for Church & Society, Dr. James Peterson explores a life-changing ethical question that has presented itself.
- Date:
- March 26, 2026
- Time:
- 7 - 8 p.m.
- Location:
Wortmann Ballroom
