2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the New England Region

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Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy is the 459th most popular major in the country with 870 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 33 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the New England Region

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Manchester Community College
Manchester, Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Manchester Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the New England Region list. This small school is located in Manchester, Connecticut, and it awarded 5 associates’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

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Northwestern Connecticut Community College
Winsted, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern Connecticut Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the New England Region. Northwestern Connecticut Community College is a small school located in Winsted, Connecticut that handed out 3 associates’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Northwestern Connecticut Community College Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy

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

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