2022 Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s
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Animal-Assisted Therapy is the 1165th most popular major in the country with 58 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in animal-assisted therapy. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great animal-assisted therapy programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the animal-assisted therapy program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree animal-assisted therapy students.
Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Cobleskill. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s list. SUNY Cobleskill is a small school located in Cobleskill, New York that handed out 7 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
SUNY Cobleskill not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $16,647 for bachelor’s degree animal-assisted therapy students per year to attend SUNY Cobleskill.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Aurora University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s list. This medium-sized school is located in Aurora, Illinois, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree animal-assisted therapy students list, Aurora has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Aurora University is $17,215 for Bachelor’s Degree Animal-Assisted Therapy students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lake Erie College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s. This small school is located in Painesville, Ohio, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
LEC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend LEC is $20,261 for bachelor’s degree animal-assisted therapy students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Carroll College landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Helena, Montana, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
Carroll Montana also took the #4 spot in our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Carroll Montana is $23,726 for bachelor’s degree animal-assisted therapy students.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Averett University landed the #5 spot on the list. AU is a small school located in Danville, Virginia that handed out 1 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
AU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $23,516 for Bachelor’s Degree Animal-Assisted Therapy students per year to attend Averett University.
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
Footnotes
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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