2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Southwest region, there were 30 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Southwest Region”.

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

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

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

1

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in San Marcos, Texas, and it awarded 21 masters’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Texas State

2

Prescott College
Prescott, Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Prescott College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Southwest Region. Prescot College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Prescott, Arizona. It awarded 3 masters’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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 more about Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Prescot College

• 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.