2025 Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Schools in the New England Region
4Colleges in the New England Region
264Parks Administration Degrees Awarded
A degree in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #231 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for parks, recreation & leisure facilities management students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 264 degrees in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management annually.
Choosing a Great Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management School
Your choice of parks, recreation & leisure facilities management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for parks, recreation & leisure facilities management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management in the New England Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the parks administration degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top New England Region Schools in Parks Administration
It is hard to beat University of New Hampshire - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a degree in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management. UNH is a large public university located in the town of Durham. A Best Colleges rank of #151 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UNH is a great university overall.
There were roughly 97 parks, recreation & leisure facilities management students who graduated with this degree at UNH in the most recent data year.
Johnson & Wales University - Providence is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management. JWU Providence is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Providence. This university ranks 4th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were about 73 parks, recreation & leisure facilities management students who graduated with this degree at JWU Providence in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Johnson & Wales University - Online if you want to pursue a degree in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management. JWU Online is a small private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Providence.
There were approximately 26 parks, recreation & leisure facilities management students who graduated with this degree at JWU Online in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Southern Connecticut State University if you want to pursue a degree in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management. SCSU is a medium-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of New Haven. This university ranks 11th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were roughly 28 parks, recreation & leisure facilities management students who graduated with this degree at SCSU in the most recent year we have data available.
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Related Rankings by Major
One of 2 majors within the Recreation Administration area of study, Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).
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Your choice of parks, recreation & leisure facilities management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for parks, recreation & leisure facilities management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
