2025 Best Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Schools in the Southwest Region
1College in the Southwest Region
43Other Parks & Rec Degrees Awarded
$30,228Avg Early-Career Salary
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #323 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
There was only one school in the Southwest Region to review for the 2025 Best Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.
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Best Schools for Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies in the Southwest Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the other parks & rec degree levels they offer.
Any student who is interested in other parks, recreation & leisure studies has to take a look at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. NWOSU is a small public university located in the town of Alva.
Soon after graduating, other parks & rec degree recipients typically earn around $27,152 at the beginning of their careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).