2022 Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 969 people earned their degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy, making the major the 423rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 14 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the Plains States Region

#1

Lindenwood University

Saint Charles, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$17,491 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lindenwood University landed the #1 spot on the list. Lindenwood University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Charles, Missouri. It awarded 8 bachelors’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

Lindenwood University also made our “Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $17,491 for plains states region bachelor’s degree therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy students per year to attend Lindenwood University.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Lindenwood University

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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

• *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.

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