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2023 Most Popular Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Graduate Certificate Schools

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Finding the Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 3,106 people earned a degree or certificate in parks, recreation and leisure studies, making the major the #169 most popular in the United States.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Most Popular Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular 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.

Check out the parks and rec graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to attend one of the most popular in the United States.

Our 2023 rankings named California State University - Long Beach the most popular school in the United States for parks, recreation and leisure studies students working on their graduate certificate. CSULB is a very large public school located in the large city of Long Beach.

Full Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at California State University - Long Beach Report

#2

Clemson University

Clemson, SC

Out of the 3 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Clemson University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Clemson is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Clemson.

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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at Indiana University - Bloomington helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular parks, recreation and leisure studies schools in the United States. Located in the small city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies by Region

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Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

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 averages are for the top 3 schools 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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