2023 Most Focused Colleges for Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management is the 1300th most popular major in the country with 12 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other parks, recreation and leisure facilities management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other parks, recreation and leisure facilities management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools Highly Focused on Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management

1

Hastings College
Hastings, Nebraska

$36,308 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,451 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Hastings College landed the #1 spot on the list. Hastings College is a small school located in Hastings, Nebraska that handed out 8 ’s other parks, recreation and leisure facilities management degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% 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 more about Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management at Hastings College

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Trine University
Angola, Indiana

$52,300 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,805 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Trine University landed the #2 spot on the list. Trine University is located in Angola, Indiana and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 ’s other parks, recreation and leisure facilities management degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.

Read full report on Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management at Trine

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Glen Santy.