2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in the Southeast Region

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Animal-Assisted Therapy is the 1045th most popular major in the country with 85 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 16 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in animal-assisted therapy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in animal-assisted therapy.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in the Southeast Region

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Isothermal Community College
Spindale, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Isothermal Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region. Isothermal Community College 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

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Tri-County Community College
Murphy, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tri-County Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. Tri-County Community College is a small school located in Murphy, North Carolina that handed out 0 associates’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Animal-Assisted Therapy at Tri-County Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.