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2022 Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
46 Degrees Awarded
$20,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 58 people earned their degree in animal-assisted therapy, making the major the 1165th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in animal-assisted therapy. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent animal-assisted therapy programs, but they also 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree animal-assisted therapy students with aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy (With Aid)

#1

SUNY Cobleskill

Cobleskill, New York
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Cobleskill. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. This small school is located in Cobleskill, New York, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

SUNY Cobleskill also made our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $16,647 for bachelor’s degree animal-assisted therapy students with aid per year to attend SUNY Cobleskill.

Read full report on Animal-Assisted Therapy at SUNY Cobleskill

#2

Aurora University

Aurora, Illinois
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Aurora University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. Aurora University is a medium-sized school located in Aurora, Illinois that handed out 8 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

Aurora not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $17,215 for bachelor’s degree animal-assisted therapy students with aid per year to attend Aurora University.

The low student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.

Full Aurora University Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

#3

Lake Erie College

Painesville, Ohio
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Erie College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Painesville, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy students in 2019-2020.

LEC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for LEC is $20,261 for Bachelor’s Degree Animal-Assisted Therapy students with aid.

Read more about Animal-Assisted Therapy at Lake Erie College

#4

Carroll College

Helena, Montana
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Carroll College landed the #4 spot on the list. Carroll Montana is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Helena, Montana. It awarded 20 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

Carroll Montana did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Carroll College is $23,726 for bachelor’s degree animal-assisted therapy students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%.

Full Carroll Montana Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

#5

Averett University

Danville, Virginia
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Averett University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. Averett University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Danville, Virginia. It awarded 1 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

AU also took the #5 spot in our “Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $23,516 for Bachelor’s Degree Animal-Assisted Therapy students with aid per year to attend Averett University.

Read full report on Animal-Assisted Therapy at AU

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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