by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2021-2022, 85 people earned their degree in animal-assisted therapy, making the major the 1045th 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 $39,724 and $23,030 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in animal-assisted therapy. That schools that top this list have a program in animal-assisted therapy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree animal-assisted therapy students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carroll College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major list. Carroll Montana is a small school located in Helena, Montana that handed out 19 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wilson College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major. Wilson College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Cobleskill landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Cobleskill, New York, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lake Erie College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major. Painesville, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Averett University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major. Averett University is a small school located in Danville, Virginia that handed out 0 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.
With a ranking of #6, Aurora University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major list. Aurora is located in Aurora, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 21 bachelors’s animal-assisted therapy degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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