A program that prepares individuals to plan, organize, and direct recreational activities designed to promote health and well-being for patients who are physically, mentally, or emotionally disabled. Includes instruction in the foundations of therapeutic recreation, leisure education and counseling, program planning, therapeutic recreational modalities, basic anatomy and physiology, psychology, medical terminology, human growth and development, patient observation and evaluation, special needs populations, and professional standards and ethics.
| A major in Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
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Top 30
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy among the 2006-2007
graduating class.
| | Unity College
Unity, ME | 5
(5.2%) |  |  | |
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| | Benedict College
Columbia, SC | 15
(5.0%) |  |  | |
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| | Southern University and A & M College
Baton Rouge, LA | 29
(3.5%) |  | | |
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| | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
La Crosse, WI | 25
(1.6%) | | | |
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| | College of Mount St. Joseph
Cincinnati, OH | 5
(1.4%) | | | |
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| | Winston-Salem State University
Winston-Salem, NC | 10
(1.3%) | | | |
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| | Hannibal-Lagrange College
Hannibal, MO | 3
(1.3%) | | | |
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| | East Carolina University
Greenville, NC | 42
(1.2%) | | | |
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| | Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC | 13
(1.0%) | | | |
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| | University of North Carolina-Wilmington
Wilmington, NC | 21
(0.9%) | | | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2006-2007 graduating class.