PhD Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at North Carolina State University

Programme overview

The Doctoral degree allows students to match their particular research interests and career aspirations with departmental research activities and faculty expertise. The primary areas of interest for students include health and well-being, human dimensions of the natural and built environment, sustainable and equitable tourism, and geospatial methods and modelling with a substantive area of study in another discipline.

Faculty: College of Natural Resources | Department: Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management | Study mode: full-time | Intake: Fall | Location: Raleigh, NC, United States

What you will study

The degree requires 54 credit hours. Each Master’s Degree has ( Master of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management & Master of Science ). The minimum credit hours range from 30 for MS in PRTM Degree, to 34 for MNR-Outdoor Recreation Technical Option Degree. Courses listed in the plan include: PRT 700 Concepts and Theories of Leisure and Recreation; PRT 750 Foundations of Social Science Research; PRT 801 Doctoral Seminar in Parks, Recreation and Tourism Research (4 credits in total out of which 1 credit can be substituted by a special topics career prep course: e.g., Pedagogy in College Teaching); PRT 701 Research Methods in Parks, Recreation, & Tourism Management; PRT 705 Qualitative Research for Environmental and Social Transformation.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management graduate students are admitted to the university through NC State’s Graduate School. Faculty in our department review applications and make recommendations to the Graduate School regarding admission of applicants to the department. A critical factor in our admission decisions for on-campus graduate degrees is whether there is a match of research interests between an applicant and a faculty member who is available to serve as academic advisor. Please review our faculty research and our faculty experts and contact the faculty members who share your academic interests. We cannot admit any students without a faculty sponsor regardless of their credentials. Application deadlines: Fall: January 15 (Masters and Doctoral)

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Entry terms: Fall, Spring, Summer 1 and Summer 2, subject to individual programme availability.

Graduate School priority deadlines: US citizens Fall June 25, Spring November 25, Summer 1 March 25, Summer 2 May 10; international applicants Fall March 1, Spring July 15, Summer 1 and Summer 2 December 15. Programme deadlines may be earlier and apply if so.

Apply through the official page: https://applygrad.ncsu.edu/apply

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