2023 Most Focused Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 85 people earned their degree in animal-assisted therapy, making the major the 1045th most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 10 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 the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region animal-assisted therapy students.
Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Animal-Assisted Therapy in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wilson College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified ’s animal-assisted therapy students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Animal-Assisted Therapy at Wilson College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Cobleskill. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Animal-Assisted Therapy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. SUNY Cobleskill is a small school located in Cobleskill, New York that handed out 2 ’s animal-assisted therapy degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 SUNY Cobleskill Animal-Assisted Therapy Report
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
- *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.
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