Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

The parks & rec doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to parks, recreation & leisure studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of parks, recreation & leisure studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt parks, recreation & leisure studies students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized parks, recreation & leisure studies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for parks, recreation & leisure studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Regrettably , we don't have sufficient info to produce a ranking of the top quality schools for parks, recreation & leisure studies in the United States. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer parks, recreation & leisure studies and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies by Region

View the Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Related Rankings by Major

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is one of 4 different types of Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies programs to choose from.

Parks & Rec Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies	14

Most Popular Majors Related to Parks & Rec

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education	305
Recreation Administration	21
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies	3

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.