Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies is a program of study at Loras College. The school offers a bachelor’s degree in the area. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in parks and rec, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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If you're having trouble deciding which school is best for you, you may want to check out our many college rankings. Loras was ranked #103 on College Factual's most recent list of the best schools for parks and rec majors. This puts the bachelor's program at the school solidly in the top 15% of all colleges and universities in the country. It is also ranked #6 in Iowa.
Here are some of the other rankings for Loras.
Part-time undergraduates at Loras paid an average of $750 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $33,500 | $33,500 |
Fees | $1,718 | $1,718 |
Books and Supplies | $1,100 | $1,100 |
On Campus Room and Board | $8,600 | $8,600 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,011 | $2,011 |
Learn more about Loras tuition and fees.
Loras does not offer an online option for its parks and rec bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Loras Online Learning page.
Women made up around 36.4% of the parks and rec students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 49.2%.
Around 9.1% of parks and rec bachelor’s degree recipients at Loras in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 37%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 27 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 3 |
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Health & Physical Education | 33 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.