2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major” ranking.

In 2020-2021, 85 people earned their degree in animal-assisted therapy, making the major the 1045th most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in animal-assisted therapy. That schools that top this list have a program in animal-assisted therapy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree animal-assisted therapy students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy

1

Hocking College
Nelsonville, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hocking College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major list. Hocking College is a small school located in Nelsonville, Ohio that handed out 9 associates’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Animal-Assisted Therapy at Hocking Technical College

2

Isothermal Community College
Spindale, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Isothermal Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major list. ICC is located in Spindale, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 associates’s animal-assisted therapy degrees to qualified students.

Full Isothermal Community College Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

3

Tri-County Community College
Murphy, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tri-County Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major. Tri-County Community College is a public institution located in Murphy, North Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Tri-County Community College Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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