2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major

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

Top 6 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy

1

Carroll College
Helena, Montana

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Carroll College landed the #1 spot on the list. Carroll Montana is a small school located in Helena, Montana that handed out 24 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

Wilson College
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wilson College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major list. Wilson is located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Animal-Assisted Therapy at Wilson College

3

SUNY Cobleskill
Cobleskill, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Cobleskill. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major list. SUNY Cobleskill is a small school located in Cobleskill, New York that handed out 10 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Full SUNY Cobleskill Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

4

Lake Erie College
Painesville, Ohio

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Erie College landed the #4 spot on the list. Painesville, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Animal-Assisted Therapy at Lake Erie College

5

Averett University
Danville, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Averett University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major. Danville, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

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6

Aurora University
Aurora, Illinois

Aurora University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major list. Located in Aurora, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Animal-Assisted Therapy at Aurora

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.