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

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With 136 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies is the #14 most popular major in Iowa.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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 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 Iowa ranking. This report analyzed 1 school in Iowa offering online graduate certificate 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 graduate certificate.

#1

Upper Iowa University

Fayette, IA

Our analysis found Upper Iowa University to be the most popular school for parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students who want to pursue an online graduate certificate in Iowa. UIU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the remote area of Fayette.

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State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 50
Missouri 247
Minnesota 151
North Dakota 36
Nebraska 36
South Dakota 61

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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