2025 Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Schools in Texas

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #231 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of parks, recreation & leisure facilities management. Combined, these schools handed out 130 degrees in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Schools List

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Rankings by Degree Level

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Schools in Texas list to help you make the college decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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Best Schools for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management in Texas

The schools below may not offer all types of parks administration degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top Texas Schools in Parks Administration

1

University of North Texas
Denton, TX

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

67 Parks Administration Degrees Awarded

Any student who is interested in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management has to take a look at University of North Texas. UNT is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Denton.More information about a degree in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management from University of North Texas

2

Texas State University
San Marcos, TX

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

56 Parks Administration Degrees Awarded

Texas State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management. Texas State is a very large public university located in the city of San Marcos.More information about a degree in parks, recreation & leisure facilities management from Texas State University

Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Arizona	670	1
Oklahoma	565	30

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Rankings in Majors Related to Parks Administration

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management is one of 2 different types of Recreation Administration programs to choose from.

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 Glen Santy.

More about our data sources and methodologies.