2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for an Associate” 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 231 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 38 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,164 and $17,633 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for an Associate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy. To top this list, a school must have a successful therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy students.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Bronx Community College
Bronx, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Bronx Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bronx, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees to 20 students in 2020-2021.

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LaGuardia Community College
Long Island City, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend LaGuardia Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for an Associate. Long Island City, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.

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• Most Popular 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

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