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Animal-Assisted Therapy at Aurora University

Animal-Assisted Therapy at Aurora University

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

Aurora is located in Aurora, Illinois and has a total student population of 6,265.

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.

Aurora Animal-Assisted Therapy Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Animal-Assisted Therapy

Aurora Animal-Assisted Therapy Rankings

The animal-assisted therapy major at Aurora 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.

Animal-Assisted Therapy Student Demographics at Aurora

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the animal-assisted therapy majors at Aurora University.

Aurora Animal-Assisted Therapy Bachelor’s Program

79% Women
17% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 21% of animal-assisted therapy bachelor's degrees went to men and 79% went to women. The typical animal-assisted therapy bachelor's degree program is made up of only 8% men. So male students are more repesented at Aurora since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

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About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in animal-assisted therapy at Aurora are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its animal-assisted therapy bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 4
White 17
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

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 IL, the home state for Aurora University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Health Specialties Professors 10,070 $105,140

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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