Mahatma Gandhi Occupational Therapy College, Jaipur

Mahatma Gandhi Occupational Therapy College is an Occupational Therapy College situated in Jaipur, Rajasthan India and covers only this area of expertise. Founded in 2014, this constituent college has earned its place among the key players in the sphere of healthcare learning.

Located in the RIICO Institutional Area of Sitapura it provides a variety of courses that are aimed at developing qualified occupational therapists. However, the available specific ranking data is unavailable; however, the concentration towards specialised education on occupational therapy is relatively unique to the college in this region.

Mahatma Gandhi Occupational Therapy College has most of the amenities that help to make the learners’ experience more engaging. There is adequate provision of books and journals updated with the recent national and international publications making studies adequate for the students.

A digital library and internet facility in the central library is available that means students have a cash of information within their reach. Lecturer’s mentioned that laboratories and clinics of the college are well equipped and students get practical experience of what they study.

For students’ residential purposes and to assist outstation students, the college has hostel facilities for boys and girls respectively. Also there is an auditorium where seminars and other activities are held, sport facilities for recreation and health centre where there is first aid services for students’ health complications.

In total, Mahatma Gandhi Occupational Therapy College has five courses offered at three levels of degree: Certificate, Diploma and Degree in occupational therapy. These include full time at the bachelors, masters and doctoral levels Full. The Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (BOT) programme which is the basic programme is offered, with 30 openings for students who wish to undertake occupational therapy.

For postgraduate course, the college offers Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) courses in paediatric, neuroscience and orthopaedic which had five students intake each. For the students wanting to take on a more research-oriented inclined or for postgraduate studies there is a Doctor of Philosophy- PhD Occupational Therapy.

Mahatma Gandhi Occupational Therapy College has an admission policy where all students who join the college are admitted based on their performance in their previous years, in order to admit the best calibre students for each course. Admission to the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (BOT) programme is done on merit.

While the Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) programmes includes a more elaborate filtering system, this takes into account both the applicant’s BOT marks and an examination performed by the university. This approach of using two criteria enables the university to get students who initially have a background of occupational therapy as well as the ability to do advanced learning.