Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at San Diego State University

Every parks, recreation and leisure studies school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the parks and rec program at San Diego State University stacks up to those at other schools.

SDSU is located in San Diego, California and has a total student population of 36,334. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 32 students received a bachelor's degree in parks and rec from SDSU.

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

SDSU Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Parks & Rec

SDSU Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the parks and rec progam at SDSU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The parks and rec major at SDSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Parks, Recreation & Leisure 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	45

How Much Do Parks & Rec Graduates from SDSU Make?

The median salary of parks and rec students who receive their bachelor's degree at SDSU is $32,608. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 3% higher than the national average of $31,674 for all parks and rec bachelor's degree recipients.

Parks & Rec Student Demographics at SDSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the parks and rec majors at San Diego State University.

SDSU Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Bachelor’s Program

The parks and rec program at SDSU awarded 32 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 47% of these degrees went to men with the other 53% going to women. The typical parks and rec bachelor's degree program is made up of only 44% men. So male students are more repesented at SDSU since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 33% more racial-ethnic minorities in its parks and rec bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from San Diego State University with a bachelor's in parks and rec.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	14
White	9
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

SDSU also has a doctoral program available in parks and rec. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Health & Physical Education

Careers That Parks & Rec Grads May Go Into

A degree in parks and 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 CA, the home state for San Diego State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Recreation and Fitness Studies Professors	2,030	$114,220

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 Wikipedia User:Geographer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.