Animal-Assisted Therapy at Lake Erie College

If you are interested in studying animal-assisted therapy, you may want to check out the program at Lake Erie College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

LEC is located in Painesville, Ohio and has a total student population of 949. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 2 students received a bachelor's degree in animal-assisted therapy from LEC.

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.

LEC Animal-Assisted Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Animal-Assisted Therapy

LEC Animal-Assisted Therapy Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the animal-assisted therapy progam at LEC 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 animal-assisted therapy major at LEC 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 Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
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Best Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools	1
Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Most Focused Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
Best Value Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools	5
Most Focused Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools	6
Most Popular Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Popular Animal-Assisted Therapy Schools	10

Animal-Assisted Therapy Student Demographics at LEC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the animal-assisted therapy majors at Lake Erie College.

LEC Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 2 animal-assisted therapy majors earned their bachelor's degree from LEC. Of these graduates, 0% were men and 100% were women.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in animal-assisted therapy at LEC are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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

LEC 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

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 OH, the home state for Lake Erie College.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
Health Specialties Professors	10,330	$130,280
Therapists	480	$67,260

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 User:Dkocan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.