2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in the Southwest Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the 218th most popular major in the country with 2,818 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 259 parks, recreation & leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 parks, recreation & leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in parks, recreation & leisure studies.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 1 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. ENMU - Main Campus is located in Portales, New Mexico and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 associates’s parks & rec degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at ENMU - Main Campus
Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
