2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Animal-Assisted Therapy is the 1165th most popular major in the country with 58 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 7 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great animal-assisted therapy programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the animal-assisted therapy program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Averett University

Danville, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$21,385 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Averett University landed the #1 spot on the list. Averett University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Danville, Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

AU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $21,385 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Animal-Assisted Therapy students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Averett University.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.

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