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

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 “Most Well Attended 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 “Most Well Attended Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in animal-assisted therapy. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular animal-assisted therapy programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended 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 Popular 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 Most Well Attended Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region list. Averett University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Danville, Virginia. It awarded 3 ’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Animal-Assisted Therapy at Averett University

2

Isothermal Community College
Spindale, North Carolina

$35,244 Average Early-Career Earnings

$8,050 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Isothermal Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Spindale, North Carolina, and it awarded 4 ’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Full ICC Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

3

Tri-County Community College
Murphy, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tri-County Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Southeast Region. Tri-County Community College is a small public school situated in Murphy, North Carolina. It awarded 0 ’s animal-assisted therapy degrees 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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