Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies at Fisher College

If you plan to study parks, recreation, leisure, & fitness studies, take a look at what Fisher College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Fisher College is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 1,419 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies section at the bottom of this page.

Fisher College Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Parks & Rec

Online Classes Are Available at Fisher College

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Fisher College offers distance education options for parks & rec at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Fisher College Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Rankings

The parks & rec major at Fisher College is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Parks & Rec Student Demographics at Fisher College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the parks & rec majors at Fisher College.

Fisher College Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 75% of parks & rec bachelor's degrees went to men and 25% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 27% more racial-ethnic minorities in its parks & rec bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Fisher College with a bachelor's in parks & rec.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	0
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Concentrations Within Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies

The following parks & rec concentations are available at Fisher College. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Fisher College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Health & Physical Education	12

Related Majors

• Public Administration & Social Service

Careers That Parks & Rec Grads May Go Into

A degree in parks & rec can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Fisher College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
General and Operations Managers	77,580	$135,820
Fitness Trainers and Aerobics Instructors	11,880	$59,350
Managers	8,660	$131,450
Coaches and Scouts	7,280	$50,200
Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Supervisors	3,090	$56,430

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Robert Chriss under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.