2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in Illinois

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Animal-Assisted Therapy is the 1165th most popular major in the country with 58 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Illinois, there were 8 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent animal-assisted therapy programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the animal-assisted therapy program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in Illinois

#1

Aurora University

Aurora, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$17,215 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Aurora University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois. Located in Aurora, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Aurora, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. It costs about $17,215 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Animal-Assisted Therapy students per year to attend Aurora.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Aurora University Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

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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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