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Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Bachelor's Degree Schools in Delaware

2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Bachelor's Degree Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$11,689 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$28,979 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, 342 degrees and certificates were awarded to parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students who went to a Delaware college or university. This makes it the #11 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Bachelor's Degree Schools in Delaware ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Delaware to see which bachelor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for parks and rec students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best Delaware Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness

Our 2023 rankings named Delaware State University the best value school in Delaware for parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the small city of Dover, Del State is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Del State undergraduate students pay an average of $8,358 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Del State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Delaware. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Delaware list. UD is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Newark.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UD are $15,020 a year.

UD also took the #1 spot in our Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Delaware rankings.

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#3

Wesley College

Dover, DE

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Wesley College is a great value for parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the small city of Dover, Wesley College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Wesley College is ranked #5 for overall quality for parks and rec in Delaware.

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Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Jersey 1,047
Pennsylvania 2,734
New York 2,477
Maryland 832
District of Columbia 319

Parks & Rec Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education 67,146
Recreation Administration 3,122
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 3,106
Outdoor Education 265
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 174

Majors Similar to Parks & Rec

Related Major Annual Graduates
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 142,610
Public Administration & Social Service 98,583
Legal Professions 61,055
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 4,477

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to NPS Photo/Zurbuch.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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