Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Master’s Degree Colleges in California

Unfortunately, there were no schools in California that made our Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Master's Degree Schools in California list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to parks, recreation & leisure studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other parks, recreation & leisure studies students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt parks, recreation & leisure studies students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized parks, recreation & leisure studies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for parks, recreation & leisure studies students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for California

Sadly , we do not have sufficient info to create a ranking of the top quality schools for parks, recreation & leisure studies in California. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in California that both offer parks, recreation & leisure studies and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies ranking.

Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

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Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Related Rankings by Major

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.