Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Master’s Degree Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 complete 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 the Southwest Region

On account of lacking data, we could not provide you with the parks, recreation & leisure studies quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer parks, recreation & leisure studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, check out 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 by State

Explore the best parks, recreation & leisure studies colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

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Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Related Rankings by Major

One of 4 majors within the Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies area of study, Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

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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.