2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 287 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,887 and $46,998 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$24,236 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Temple University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Temple University is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 14 masters’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Temple, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Temple are $24,236.

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

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