2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

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

In 2020-2021, 36 degrees and certificates were awarded to parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students who went to a Rhode Island college or university. This makes it the #19 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.

The Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Schools in Rhode Island ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones offered the best value programs for parks and rec students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Schools in Rhode Island

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Colleges.

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality in Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness

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

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

State	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	243
Connecticut	78
New Hampshire	189
Maine	3
Vermont	16

Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Related Majors for Parks & Rec

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

Most Popular Majors Related 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 2 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.