2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Parks & Rec for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
27
Degrees Awarded
$31,300
Avg Cost*
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Parks & Rec for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the 218th most popular major in the country with 3,106 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 28 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality parks, recreation and leisure studies programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the parks, recreation and leisure studies program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Parks & Rec for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Parks & Rec for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gordon College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the New England Region for Parks & Rec for a Bachelor’s list. Wenham, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s parks and rec degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
Gordon College also made our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 34 of the 1,816 students enrolled at Gordon College were GI Bill® students, of which 24 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $20,776. During this same period, 6 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Gordon College]](/colleges/gordon-college/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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