2022 Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism is the 865th most popular major in the country with 170 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 12 environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the environmental/natural resource recreation and tourism program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree natural resource recreation and tourism students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Arizona State University - Skysong

Scottsdale, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$6,724 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Skysong. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. ASU - Skysong is a public institution located in Scottsdale, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 12 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

ASU - Skysong also took the #1 spot in our “Best Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Arizona State University - Skysong are $6,724, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism at ASU - Skysong

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental/Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism (Income $48-$75k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Brian M. Powell.

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