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2023 Most Popular Online Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Graduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia

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In 2020-2021, parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students earned 236 degrees and certificates from a West Virginia school, making the subject the 9th in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Online Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Graduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia ranking. This report analyzed 1 school in West Virginia offering online graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

Check out the online parks and rec graduate certificate programs at this school if you want to attend one of the most popular in West Virginia.

Our 2023 rankings named American Public University System the most popular online school in West Virginia for parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the town of Charles Town, American Military University is a private for-profit school with a very large student population.

Women make up 17% of the parks and rec majors at the school.

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

Explore all the Most Popular Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Mississippi 160
Florida 448
Virginia 433
Tennessee 287
North Carolina 289
Georgia 308
South Carolina 220
Louisiana 152
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

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 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.

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