Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of parks, recreation & leisure studies for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality parks & rec program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

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.

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 studies students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other parks, recreation & leisure studies students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized parks, recreation & leisure studies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for parks, recreation & leisure studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

On account of missing data, we were not able to show you the parks, recreation & leisure studies quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer parks, recreation & leisure studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies by Region

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Rankings in Majors Related to Parks & Rec

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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). More about our data sources and methodologies.