2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

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 7 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy. That schools that top this list have a program in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Plains States Region

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

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

1

Lindenwood University
Saint Charles, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lindenwood University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Saint Charles, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy students in 2020-2021.

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%.

Read full report on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Lindenwood University

2

University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

#9 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Plains States Region list. Iowa is located in Iowa City, Iowa and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Read more about Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Iowa

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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

• *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.