PGM students place 2nd at PGA University Championship
Our students set a school-record score during the Championship while competing with other PGA of America accredited Professional Golf Management programs.
Understanding barriers to healthy leisure activities
Students face different, often co-occurring barriers that may prevent them from participating in healthy leisure activities, like exercising or reading for pleasure.
Bing Pan works to protect Singapore’s urban parks
Pan will travel to Singapore this spring semester and study how to manage visitor traffic in highly visited parks, thanks to a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in travel/tourism.
RPTM student supports people and wildlife
This summer, Brandon George, a senior in recreation, park and tourism management, worked in Rwanda in a village where former gorilla poachers earn money from tourism instead of poaching.
Meeting and Event Management Certificate
Events play a key role across all fields and industries, from building key relationships with stakeholders, marketing, fundraising, annual conferences, to celebrating cultural heritage. This certificate program is designed to prepare students with strategic event management skills and is open to all Penn State students in residence, regardless of major.
Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
Transforming Health and Wellness — Through Engaging People in Recreation
Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management at Penn State strives to positively impact health and wellness through recreation, park, tourism, and leisure opportunities — often affectionately referred to by many as the aspirational “bucket list” activities of their lives.
Undergraduate Program
Undergraduate Program
Explore the undergraduate degree that examines the broad spectrum of ways in which leisure activities, tourism and participating in life changing “experiences” impact our health and well-being.
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Graduate Program
Graduate Program
The graduate program explores how the social, environmental, psychological, and economic aspects of a broad array of leisure activities and pursuits can truly transform people’s lives and sense of well-being.
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Research
Research
Our team of esteemed research professionals collaborates closely with students and industry partners to examine how people engage in a full spectrum of recreational activities and how it affects their lives, the lives of others, and the environment around them.
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World Campus
World Campus
The RPTM program on World Campus can help prepare you for a career in one of the world’s largest service-sector industries, all from the comfort of your home. It has been built to help you gain the theoretical, managerial, practical and technical skills needed to succeed in the field.
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The associate professor received the Faculty Sustainability Award, which recognizes achievement in advancing global sustainable development goals while carrying out the College of Health and Human Development’s efforts to maximize health, optimize quality of life, and enhance human potential for all people and populations.
