2022 Best Value Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management (Income $75-$110k) in Maine

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Parks Administration Schools in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management is the 187th most popular major in the country with 3,432 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maine, there were 14 parks, recreation and leisure facilities management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the parks, recreation and leisure facilities management program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Parks Administration Schools in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Parks Administration Schools in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Parks Administration Schools in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management (Income $75-$110k) in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$20,312 Average Net Price

$41,405 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Parks Administration Schools in Maine For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s parks administration degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

UMaine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Schools in Maine” list. It costs about $20,312 for Maine Parks Administration students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend UMaine.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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• Best Value Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management (Income $75-$110k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management (Income $75-$110k)

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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