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2023 Most Popular Online Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Schools in Alaska

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In 2020-2021, 35 degrees and certificates were awarded to parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students who went to a Alaska college or university. This makes it the #20 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Most Popular Online Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Schools in Alaska ranking. This report analyzed 1 school in Alaska offering online programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The school below is the most popular for parks and rec majors pursuing an online .

Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Fairbanks the most popular online school in Alaska for parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students. UAF is a moderately-sized public school located in the suburb of Fairbanks.

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State Degrees Awarded
California 11,237
Washington 673
Oregon 629
Hawaii 171
Nevada 273

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

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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