2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the 218th most popular major in the country with 3,106 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 284 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in parks, recreation and leisure studies. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in parks, recreation and leisure studies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree parks & rec students.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

SUNY Cortland
Cortland, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Cortland. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s list. SUNY Cortland is a medium-sized public school situated in Cortland, New York. It awarded 18 masters’s parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at SUNY Cortland

2

Morgan State University
Baltimore, Maryland

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Morgan State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Morgan State University is a medium-sized school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 0 masters’s parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Morgan State Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Report

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University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#11 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in College Park, Maryland, and it awarded 0 masters’s parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Full UMCP Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Report

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies

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

Footnotes

• *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.