Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

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

Your choice of parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

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

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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, & fitness studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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 easy is it for parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness 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, & fitness studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Southwest Region

On account of absent data, we could not show you the parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies ranking.

Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies schools for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	29	42
Arizona	28	6
Oklahoma	26	11
New Mexico	23	0

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Parks & Rec Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education	41
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies	3

Majors Similar to Parks & Rec

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Administration & Social Service	83

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to NPS Photo/Zurbuch. More about our data sources and methodologies.