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2023 Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Colleges for Veterans in Nebraska

1 Ranked Colleges
63 Degrees Awarded
$20,000 Avg Cost*
Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Parks & Rec

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Parks & Rec” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the 166th most popular major in the country with 3,106 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,801 and had an average of $23,333 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nebraska, there were 63 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,081 and $18,594 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Parks & Rec” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Parks & Rec

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Parks & Rec”.

Top 1 Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Colleges for Veterans in Nebraska

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska at Kearney. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Parks & Rec. Kearney, Nebraska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s parks and rec degrees to 60 students in 2020-2021.

UNK did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] on our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list.According to our most recent data, University of Nebraska at Kearney supports 6,225 students, and 183 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 71 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,539. During this same period, 12 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at UNK]](/colleges/university-of-nebraska-at-kearney/student-life/veterans/)

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