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2022 Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

1 Ranked Colleges
594 Degrees Awarded
$4,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 72,122 people earned their degree in parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies, making the major the 15th most popular in the United States. 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 the Southwest region, there were 9,967 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,090 and $22,308 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 594 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness 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, leisure, and fitness studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

South Texas College

McAllen, Texas
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, South Texas College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in McAllen, Texas, this large public school handed out 67 degrees to qualified associates’s parks and rec students in 2019-2020.

South Texas College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $4,790 for southwest region associate degree parks & rec students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend South Texas College.

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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%.

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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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