2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$25,400
Avg Cost*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 17 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wilson College landed the #1 spot on the list. Wilson College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It awarded 7 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Wilson College Animal-Assisted Therapy Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Cobleskill. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Cobleskill, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Animal-Assisted Therapy at SUNY Cobleskill
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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
- *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.
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