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

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States 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

The parks & rec doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality parks & rec program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness 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, & 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 Plains States Region

As a result of lacking data, we were not able to show you the parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, check out 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 Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	27	0
Iowa	26	9
Nebraska	24	2

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Parks & Rec Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education	8
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Parks & Rec

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Public Administration & Social Service	395

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.