2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in the Great Lakes Region

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 23 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in the Great Lakes Region

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Lake Erie College
Painesville, Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Erie College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Painesville, Ohio, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Lake Erie College Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

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Aurora University
Aurora, Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Aurora University landed the #2 spot on the 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%.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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

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