Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy at Longwood University

What traits are you looking for in a therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy school? To help you decide if Longwood University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy program.

Longwood is located in Farmville, Virginia and has a total student population of 4,841. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 students received a bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy from Longwood.

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.

Longwood Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy

Longwood Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy progam at Longwood 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 therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy major at Longwood 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
Most Focused Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Focused Recreational Therapy Schools	9
Best Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	14
Best Recreational Therapy Schools	17
Most Popular Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	19
	21
Best Value Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools	21
Most Popular Recreational Therapy Schools	23
	34
Best Value Recreational Therapy Schools	36

Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Student Demographics at Longwood

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

Longwood Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy from Longwood. About 13% were men and 87% were 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 Longwood since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% 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 Longwood University with a bachelor's in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Longwood 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

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 VA, the home state for Longwood University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Recreational Therapists	420	$47,590

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 Webster Geneva under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.