2023 Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 870 people earned their degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy, making the major the 459th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 38 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 “Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region

1

Eastern Washington University
Cheney, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$7,657 Average Net Price

$41,008 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Washington University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. EWU is a fairly large school located in Cheney, Washington that handed out 11 ’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

EWU also made our “Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for EWU is $7,657 for Far Western US Region Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy students whose families make $0-$30k.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

Fremont College
Cerritos, California

#2 in overall quality

$28,045 Average Net Price

$30,844 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Fremont College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Fremont College is a small school located in Cerritos, California that handed out 26 ’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Fremont College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. It costs about $28,045 for Far Western US Region Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Fremont College.

Read full report on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Fremont College

• Best Value Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.