2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy 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. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Plains States Region” 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 Plains States region, there were 14 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Plains States 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 Plains States Region

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

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

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Ridgewater College
Willmar, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ridgewater College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Willmar, Minnesota, this small public school awarded 6 degrees to qualified associates’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy students in 2020-2021.

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Vermilion Community College
Ely, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vermilion Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Plains States Region list. This small school is located in Ely, Minnesota, and it awarded 0 associates’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

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• 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.