2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Parks & Rec Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the 868th most popular major in the country with 174 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 11 other parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 other parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Parks & Rec Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in other parks, recreation and leisure studies. That schools that top this list have a program in other parks, recreation and leisure studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Parks & Rec Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Parks & Rec Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies in the Plains States Region

1

Chadron State College
Chadron, Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chadron State College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Parks & Rec Major in the Plains States Region list. Chadron State College is a public institution located in Chadron, Nebraska. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at Chadron State College

2

Ottawa University - Ottawa
Ottawa, Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ottawa University - Ottawa. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Parks & Rec Major in the Plains States Region list. Ottawa is a small school located in Ottawa, Kansas that handed out 0 bachelors’s other parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at Ottawa

2

University of Dubuque
Dubuque, Iowa

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Parks & Rec Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Dubuque landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Dubuque, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s other parks and rec students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Dubuque Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies

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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• 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.