2023 Most Focused Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in Ohio

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in Ohio” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Animal-Assisted Therapy is the 1045th most popular major in the country with 85 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Ohio, there were 13 animal-assisted therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in Ohio” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in animal-assisted therapy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in animal-assisted therapy.

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Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in Ohio

The colleges and universities below are the best for ohio animal-assisted therapy students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in Ohio

1

Hocking College
Nelsonville, Ohio

$31,084 Average Early-Career Earnings

$13,398 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in Ohio that were part of this year’s ranking, Hocking College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Nelsonville, Ohio, this small public school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified ’s animal-assisted therapy students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Hocking College Animal-Assisted Therapy Report

2

Lake Erie College
Painesville, Ohio

$50,148 Average Early-Career Earnings

$41,702 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in Ohio that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Erie College landed the #2 spot on the list. LEC is a small school located in Painesville, Ohio that handed out 2 ’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2021-2022.

Read more about Animal-Assisted Therapy at LEC

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

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