2024 Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
12Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #303 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy. Combined, these schools handed out 12 bachelor's degrees in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the New England Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy.
Top New England Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).