Occupational therapists may enter the graduate certificate program as degree or non-degree seeking

Non-degree Seeking Admission Requirements

• 3.0 G.P.A. last sixty hours in bachelor’s degree (all transcripts are required). Applicants with diploma only will not be accepted to this program according to the requirements of the TWU Graduate School.

• Certification or licensure as an occupational therapist

With non-degree seeking admission students may take up to 12 credit hours within the OT program.  To continue beyond those 12 hours, students must change their status to degree seeking.

Admission Application

• Go to the TWU online application page (http://www.twu.edu/admissions/apply.htm). Log into the online graduate application.

• Application instructions for Occupational Therapists:

Admission Application

• Go to the TWU online application page (http://www.twu.edu/admissions/apply.htm). Log into the online graduate application.

• Application instructions for Physical Therapists:

  	1.	Select Major – From the pull down menu, select “Physical Therapy Degree”
  	2.	Major area of interest/specialty (Question 16) – Type in “Graduate Certification in PT”
  	3.	Degree you will seek (Question 17) – From the pull down menu, select “Certification”

In addition to other university fees, total cost for a single three-credit hour course is approximately $800.

*Tuition and fees are subject to change. Detailed information per semester can be found at TWU Cashier's Office.

Visit the following TWU links for financial aid information:

1. TWU financial aid office   
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2. TWU scholarships      

• If you don’t regularly “surf the web”, that’s not a problem.  You will need to be able to connect with the Internet and have very basic skills.  Go to http://www.twu.edu/dl/orientation for a step-by-step how to do it?

• The primary competency is the ability to navigate Blackboard.  This is the platform on which all of the online courses are presented.  It operates much like windows.  For the past five years, our on-campus post-professional masters students have been using Blackboard http://online.twu.edu.  They have learned the process easily. 

• In each of the online courses, the instructor posts documents for reading and assignments.  Live-time discussions are pre-arranged and can occur in special Blackboard “chat rooms” accessible to students enrolled in the course.  Discussions threads occur often, and are so interesting that some of the students continue them outside of the designated class time. 

• The majority of online time is “on demand.”  That is, students read and respond to assignments and questions at the time that is most convenient for them.