2021 Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in Arizona
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Finding the Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Schools for Non-Traditional Students
In <nil>, 931 bachelor's degrees were awarded to parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies students who went to a Arizona college or university. This makes it the #16 most popular major in the state. This means that colleges and universities in the state were responsible for awarding 1.7% of all the parks & rec bachelor's degrees in the country.
For this year's Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in Arizona ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a bachelor's in parks & rec. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies programs as well as strong support for students classified as non-traditional.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies program at the school, affordability, and non-traditional population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
The parks & rec school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Parks & Rec Schools for Non-Traditional Students.
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2021 Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Schools for Non-Traditional Students in Arizona
The following schools top our list of the Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Colleges for Non-Traditional Students.
Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Schools for Non-Traditional Students
Northern Arizona University has taken the #1 spot in this year's parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies ranking for non-traditional students. NAU is a very large public school located in the city of Flagstaff. NAU also took the #2 spot in our Best Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies in Arizona rankings.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.7%. Approximately 9,603 students take at least one class online at NAU. 6,368 of NAU students are attending part time.
Our rankings recognize Grand Canyon University as the #2 school in this year's rankings. Grand Canyon University is a very large private for-profit school located in the city of Phoenix. Grand Canyon University also made our Best Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies in Arizona list, coming in at #3.
The student loan default rate at Grand Canyon University is lower than is typical, just 1.5% of students default in three years. 79,865 students at Grand Canyon University are exclusively online. There are roughly 80,777 part time students in attendance at Grand Canyon University.
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 the rest 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).
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In <nil>, 931 bachelor's degrees were awarded to parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies students who went to a Arizona college or university. This makes it the #16 most popular major in the state. This means that colleges and universities in the state were responsible for awarding 1.7% of all the parks & rec bachelor's degrees in the country.
