Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in Iowa

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Iowa that made our Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in Iowa 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. 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 account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different 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, & 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 Iowa

Regrettably , we do not have sufficient facts to create a ranking of the quality colleges for parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies in Iowa. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in Iowa that both offer parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient 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 in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	27	0
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	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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to NPS Photo/Zurbuch. More about our data sources and methodologies.