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2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Doctor's Degree Schools in Tennessee

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$11,645 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$69,500 Avg Salary

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

Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies is the #12 most popular major in Tennessee with 287 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

The Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Doctor's Degree Schools in Tennessee ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in Tennessee to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for parks and rec students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for parks and rec majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Best Tennessee Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness

Our analysis found Middle Tennessee State University to be the best value school for parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Tennessee. Middle Tennessee State University is a very large public school located in the city of Murfreesboro.

Middle Tennessee State University graduate students pay an average of $10,818 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies at Middle Tennessee State University

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies schools in Tennessee. UT Knoxville is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Knoxville.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UT Knoxville are $13,380 a year.

UT Knoxville did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Doctor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee list.

Full Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend East Tennessee State University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Doctor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee list. Located in the small city of Johnson City, ETSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at ETSU are $10,736 a year.

Full Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies at East Tennessee State University Report

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

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

State Degrees Awarded
Mississippi 160
Florida 448
Virginia 433
North Carolina 289
Georgia 308
West Virginia 236
Louisiana 152
South Carolina 220
Kentucky 279
Arkansas 292
Alabama 216

Parks & Rec Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education 9,742
Recreation Administration 441
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 206
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 35
Outdoor Education 28

Majors Similar to Parks & Rec

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Administration & Social Service 53,252
Legal Professions 45,189
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 13,045
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 1,613

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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