2022 Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy is the 423rd most popular major in the country with 969 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 278 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy programs that also have a lower cost than 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 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

La Crosse, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$20,038 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse landed the #1 spot on the list. UW - La Crosse is a fairly large public school situated in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It awarded 4 masters’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - La Crosse did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Wisconsin - La Crosse are $20,038.

Read more about Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at UW - La Crosse

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy (Income $48-$75k)

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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