2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Animal-Assisted Therapy for an Associate
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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Animal-Assisted Therapy for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Animal-Assisted Therapy is the 1045th most popular major in the country with 85 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great animal-assisted therapy programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the animal-assisted therapy program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Animal-Assisted Therapy for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Animal-Assisted Therapy for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree vets studying animal-assisted therapy.
Top 1 Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hocking College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Animal-Assisted Therapy for an Associate list. Located in Nelsonville, Ohio, this small public school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified associates’s animal-assisted therapy students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our associate degree vets studying animal-assisted therapy list, Hocking Technical College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Associate Degree Schools” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 113 of the 2,431 students enrolled at Hocking College were GI Bill® students, of which 67 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,442. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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