Parks, Recreation, & Leisure
Contains Stem Majors
Add ComparisonIn 2023, the locations with the highest concentration of Parks, Recreation, & Leisure degree recipients are Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, and Iowa City, IA. In 2023, the locations with a relatively high number of Parks, Recreation, & Leisure degree recipients are Daphne, AL, Carpinteria, CA, and Babson Park, FL. The most common degree awarded to students studying Parks, Recreation, & Leisure is a bachelors degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Parks, Recreation, & Leisure and the types of students that study this field. University of Iowa awards the most degrees in Parks, Recreation, & Leisure in the US.
Tuition costs for Parks, Recreation, & Leisure majors are, on average, $7,388 for in-state public colleges, and $32,878 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Parks, Recreation, & Leisure programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (622 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (45,014 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Parks, Recreation, & Leisure, is Public, 4-year or above (45,014 completions in 2023).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Parks, Recreation, & Leisure programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
University of Iowa has the most Parks, Recreation, & Leisure degree recipients, with 651 degrees awarded in 2023.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Parks, Recreation, & Leisure.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Parks, Recreation, & Leisure by year.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Parks, Recreation, & Leisure in the United States.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Bachelors Degree. White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Parks, Recreation, & Leisure (38,361 students).
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Parks, Recreation, & Leisure are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Associates Degree.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Parks, Recreation, & Leisure are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Doctorate degree.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Parks, Recreation, & Leisure for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Libya that hold Parks, Recreation, & Leisure degrees (14.4 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is India (5,047 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Parks, Recreation, & Leisure field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Parks, Recreation, & Leisure majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Parks, Recreation, & Leisure majors need more than the average amount of N/A.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Parks, Recreation, & Leisure majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of N/A is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Speaking, and Monitoring are the three most important skills for people in the field.