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Most Popular Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

2023 Most Popular Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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Finding the Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree School for You

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the #169 most popular major in the country with 3,106 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Most Popular Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 1 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones were the most popular doctor's degree programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies program at each school on the list.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the most popular school in the Great Lakes Region for parks, recreation and leisure studies students working on their doctor’s degree. UIUC is a very large public school located in the small city of Champaign.

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Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best parks, recreation and leisure studies colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 16
Ohio 101
Illinois 196
Indiana 161

One of 4 majors within the area of study, parks, recreation and leisure studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education 67,146
Recreation Administration 3,122
Outdoor Education 265
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 174

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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