2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Tennessee

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the 218th most popular major in the country with 3,106 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Tennessee, there were 3 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 3 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,466 and $26,819 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Tennessee” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in parks, recreation and leisure studies. That schools that top this list have a program in parks, recreation and leisure studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Tennessee

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies in Tennessee

1

Carson - Newman University
Jefferson City, Tennessee

#19 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carson - Newman University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Tennessee list. Carson - Newman University is located in Jefferson City, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s parks and rec degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at Carson - Newman University

2

Cumberland University
Lebanon, Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Cumberland University landed the #2 spot on the list. CU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lebanon, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at CU

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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.