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 “Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Maryland for a Master’s” 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 Maryland, there were 862 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,850 and $25,061 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,303 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Maryland for a Master’s” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies programs in the United States.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Maryland for a Master’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Frostburg State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Maryland for a Master’s. Located in Frostburg, Maryland, this small public school awarded 16 degrees to qualified masters’s parks and rec students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mount St Mary’s University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Maryland for a Master’s. Mount St Mary’s University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Maryland for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in College Park, Maryland, this large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s parks and rec students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Baltimore. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Maryland for a Master’s list. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s parks and rec degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Morgan State University. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Maryland for a Master’s. Morgan State University is a medium-sized school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 0 masters’s parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.
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