2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions is the 37th most popular major in the country with 30,594 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , rehabilitation & therapeutic professions graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $59,757 and had an average of $72,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 2,494 rehabilitation & therapeutic professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,520 and $64,318 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 rehabilitation & therapeutic professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,012 and $13,730 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in rehabilitation & therapeutic professions. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their rehabilitation & therapeutic professions program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in the New England Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions in the New England Region

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NHTI-Concord's Community College
Concord, New Hampshire

$40,572 Average Early-Career Earnings

$13,003 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, NHTI-Concord’s Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. NHTI is a small public school situated in Concord, New Hampshire. It awarded 10 associates’s rehabilitation degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions at NHTI

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Manchester Community College
Manchester, Connecticut

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Manchester Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Manchester Community College is a small school located in Manchester, Connecticut that handed out 4 associates’s rehabilitation degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions at Manchester Community College

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Northwestern Connecticut Community College
Winsted, Connecticut

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Rehabilitation Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern Connecticut Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Winsted, Connecticut, and it awarded 5 associates’s rehabilitation degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions at NCCC

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.