Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Kean University

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

Kean is located in Union, New Jersey and approximately 14,064 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 20 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy majors received their bachelor's degree from Kean.

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.

Kean Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy

Kean Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy progam at Kean compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy major at Kean is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational 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
	1
Best Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
Best Recreational Therapy Schools	4
Best Value Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
Best Value Recreational Therapy Schools	15
Most Popular Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	15
Most Popular Recreational Therapy Schools	18
Most Focused Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	18
Most Focused Recreational Therapy Schools	26

Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Student Demographics at Kean

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

Kean Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Program

The therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy program at Kean awarded 20 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 20% of these degrees went to men with the other 80% going to women. The typical therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy bachelor's degree program is made up of only 12% men. So male students are more repesented at Kean since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 25% more racial-ethnic minorities in its therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Kean University with a bachelor's in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Kean also has a doctoral program available in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Physical Therapy/Therapist
• Occupational Therapy

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 NJ, the home state for Kean University.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
Health Specialties Professors	4,420	$109,190
Recreational Therapists	470	$58,220

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
• Image Credit: By Daniel Collins under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.