2023 Most Veteran Friendly in South Carolina for Parks Administration for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
136
Degrees Awarded
$42,100
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in South Carolina for Parks Administration for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management is the 231st most popular major in the country with 2,937 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across South Carolina, there were 181 parks, recreation and leisure facilities management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 136 parks, recreation and leisure facilities management graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,293 and $28,603 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great parks, recreation and leisure facilities management programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the parks, recreation and leisure facilities management program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in South Carolina for Parks Administration for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in South Carolina for Parks Administration for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for south carolina bachelor’s degree vets studying parks administration.
Top 1 Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in South Carolina
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in South Carolina for Parks Administration for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Clemson University landed the #1 spot on the list. Clemson is located in Clemson, South Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 129 bachelors’s parks administration degrees to qualified students.
Clemson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” list.Our most recent data shows that 922 of the 26,406 students enrolled at Clemson were GI Bill® students, of which 429 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,920. During this same period, 15 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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