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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” 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.

Across the Southeast region, there were 16 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in animal-assisted therapy. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their animal-assisted therapy program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region animal-assisted therapy students.

Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in the Southeast Region

1

Averett University
Danville, Virginia

$45,340 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,789 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Averett University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. AU is located in Danville, Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 ’s animal-assisted therapy degrees to qualified students.

Full Averett University Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

2

Isothermal Community College
Spindale, North Carolina

$35,244 Average Early-Career Earnings

$8,050 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Isothermal Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. Spindale, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s animal-assisted therapy degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Animal-Assisted Therapy at ICC

3

Tri-County Community College
Murphy, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tri-County Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. Murphy, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s animal-assisted therapy degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Full Tri-County Community College Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

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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

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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