2022 Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies is the 15th most popular major in the country with 72,122 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,823 and had an average of $24,576 in loans still to pay off.

Across Utah, there were 922 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 39 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies programs and 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, leisure, and fitness studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies (Income $48-$75k) in Utah

#1

Brigham Young University - Provo

Provo, Utah

$7,510 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Provo. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Provo, Utah, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified masters’s parks and rec students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at BYU, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Utah” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at BYU are $7,510, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

#1 in overall quality

$24,695 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Utah landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, this large public school handed out 11 degrees to qualified masters’s parks and rec students in 2019-2020.

U of U not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Utah” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Utah are $24,695, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#3

Southern Utah University

Cedar City, Utah

#2 in overall quality

$24,548 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Utah University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Utah For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Cedar City, Utah, this fairly large public school handed out 19 degrees to qualified masters’s parks and rec students in 2019-2020.

Southern Utah University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Utah” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Utah University are $24,548.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies (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.

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