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2022 Best Vallue Parks & Rec Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making Over $110k

1 Ranked Colleges
2 Degrees Awarded
$30,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Vallue Parks & Rec Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making Over $110k

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 Vallue Parks & Rec Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the 152nd most popular major in the country with 3,224 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,957 and had an average of $22,487 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 167 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,733 and $24,414 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,900 and $148,219 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent parks, recreation and leisure studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the parks, recreation and leisure studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Vallue Parks & Rec Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Vallue Parks & Rec Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois doctor’s degree parks & rec students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies (Income Over $110k) in Illinois

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #1 for the Best Vallue Parks & Rec Schools for a Doctorate in Illinois For Those Making Over $110k. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 2 doctorate’s parks and rec degrees in 2019-2020.

UIUC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UIUC are $30,083, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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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.

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