Animal-Assisted Therapy at Aurora University

If you plan to study animal-assisted therapy, take a look at what Aurora University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Aurora is located in Aurora, Illinois and approximately 6,265 students attend the school each year. Of the 284 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Aurora University in 2021, 12 of them were animal-assisted therapy majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Animal-Assisted Therapy section at the bottom of this page.

Aurora Animal-Assisted Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Animal-Assisted Therapy

Aurora Animal-Assisted Therapy Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the animal-assisted therapy progam at Aurora compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The animal-assisted therapy major at Aurora is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Animal-Assisted Therapy. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Most Popular Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools	2
Most Popular Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools	2
	3
Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools	3
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Most Focused Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Focused Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools	8

Animal-Assisted Therapy Student Demographics at Aurora

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the animal-assisted therapy majors at Aurora University.

Aurora Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Program

The animal-assisted therapy program at Aurora awarded 12 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 8% of these degrees went to men with the other 92% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% more racial-ethnic minorities in its animal-assisted therapy bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Aurora University with a bachelor's in animal-assisted therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Aurora also has a doctoral program available in animal-assisted therapy. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy

Careers That Animal-Assisted Therapy Grads May Go Into

A degree in animal-assisted therapy can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Aurora University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Health Specialties Professors	10,070	$105,140

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.