2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies in Arizona

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Arizona 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 Arizona, there were 1,368 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,907 and $22,850 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,654 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Arizona for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness 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 Arizona for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Arizona for a Master’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies in Arizona

1

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#2 overall quality in Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Arizona for a Master’s. This large school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 20 masters’s parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies at Arizona State University - Tempe

2

Prescott College
Prescott, Arizona

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Arizona for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Prescott College landed the #2 spot on the list. Prescot College is located in Prescott, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 masters’s parks and rec degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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3

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

#6 overall quality in Arizona

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Parks & Rec Major in Arizona for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the #3 spot on the list. Northern Arizona University is a large school located in Flagstaff, Arizona that handed out 3 masters’s parks and rec degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies at Northern Arizona University

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies in the Southwest Region
• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness 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.

Credits

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