2022 Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

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 an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 969 people earned their degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy, making the major the 423rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 14 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy programs, but they also cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Ridgewater College

Willmar, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$11,764 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ridgewater College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. This small school is located in Willmar, Minnesota, and it awarded 6 associates’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ridgewater College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Ridgewater College is $11,764 for Plains States Region Associate Degree Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy students with aid.

Read full report on Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Ridgewater College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy (With Aid)

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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