by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Connecticut” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies is the 15th most popular major in the country with 73,813 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,423 and had an average of $24,388 in loans still to pay off.
Across Connecticut, there were 336 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,602 and $26,064 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 223 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,551 and $25,342 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mitchell College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut. Mitchell College is a small school located in New London, Connecticut that handed out 13 bachelors’s parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Connecticut State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut list. Southern Connecticut State University is a medium-sized school located in New Haven, Connecticut that handed out 67 bachelors’s parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Connecticut State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut. Located in Willimantic, Connecticut, this small public school handed out 26 degrees to qualified bachelors’s parks and rec students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Connecticut State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut. This medium-sized school is located in New Britain, Connecticut, and it awarded 60 bachelors’s parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Post University landed the #5 spot on the list. Post University is located in Waterbury, Connecticut and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 26 bachelors’s parks and rec degrees to qualified students.
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With a ranking of #6, Albertus Magnus College did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut list. Albertus Magnus is located in New Haven, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s parks and rec degrees to qualified students.
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University of Connecticut came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut ranking. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s parks and rec degrees to 28 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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University of Saint Joseph ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Parks & Rec Major in Connecticut list. Located in West Hartford, Connecticut, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s parks and rec students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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