2023 Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Virginia
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Ranked Colleges
15
Degrees Awarded
$32,500
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy is the 459th most popular major in the country with 870 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Virginia, there were 15 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Virginia
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Longwood University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Virginia for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy for a Bachelor’s list. Longwood University is located in Farmville, Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 bachelors’s therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy degrees to qualified students.
Longwood not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 4,841 students enrolled at Longwood were GI Bill® students, of which 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $0. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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