Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at LaGuardia Community College

If you plan to study therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy, take a look at what LaGuardia Community College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

LaGuardia is located in Long Island City, New York and approximately 16,971 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy section at the bottom of this page.

LaGuardia Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy

LaGuardia Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Rankings

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Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Student Demographics at LaGuardia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy majors at LaGuardia Community College.

LaGuardia Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 22% of therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy associate's degrees went to men and 78% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy only graduates about 12% men each year. The program at LaGuardia may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 10% more women than average.

LaGuardia does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy graduates 43% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from LaGuardia Community College with a associate's in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	4
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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Careers That Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Grads May Go Into

A degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational 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 NY, the home state for LaGuardia Community College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Health Specialties Professors	22,170	$127,230
Recreational Therapists	1,500	$55,370

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.