2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management in the Southwest Region

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 for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 254 parks, recreation and leisure facilities management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 parks, recreation and leisure facilities management graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Parks Administration Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in parks, recreation and leisure facilities management. 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the parks, recreation and leisure facilities management 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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Best Value Parks Administration Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree parks administration students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management in the Southwest Region

#1

University of North Texas

Denton, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$15,618 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Parks Administration Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in Denton, Texas, this large public school awarded 15 degrees to qualified masters’s parks administration students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNT, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Texas are $15,618, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management at UNT

#2

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$17,040 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Parks Administration Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. Texas State is a large school located in San Marcos, Texas that handed out 5 masters’s parks administration degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas State also made our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas State are $17,040, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management at Texas State University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management

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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