2023 Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s

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Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the 166th most popular major in the country with 3,106 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,801 and had an average of $23,333 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 568 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,183 and $28,553 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in parks, recreation and leisure studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful parks, recreation and leisure studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree parks & rec students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies in the Southeast Region

1

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, East Carolina University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Greenville, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified masters’s parks and rec students in 2020-2021.

Full East Carolina University Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Report

2

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Richmond, Virginia, and it awarded 0 masters’s parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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 VCU

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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.