2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 231 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. SRU is a medium-sized school located in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania that handed out 7 masters’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% 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 full report on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

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Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Temple University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Temple is a large public school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 8 masters’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Temple University

• Most Focused Master’s 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.