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

5 Ranked Colleges
89 Degrees Awarded
$28,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking.

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the 191st most popular major in the country with 3,224 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 517 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 89 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in parks, recreation and leisure studies. 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the parks, recreation and leisure studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 5 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 29 masters’s parks and rec degrees to qualified students.

UIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are $30,083.

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#2

Indiana University - Bloomington

Bloomington, Indiana
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. IU Bloomington is a public institution located in Bloomington, Indiana. The school has a large population, and it awarded 23 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

IU Bloomington did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Indiana University - Bloomington are $33,338.

Full IU Bloomington Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Carbondale, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s parks and rec degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

SIUC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at SIUC are $32,928.

Full SIUC Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Report

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. This large school is located in Athens, Ohio, and it awarded 10 masters’s parks and rec degrees in 2019-2020.

OHIO Athens did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ohio University - Athens Campus are $17,712, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#5

University of Toledo

Toledo, Ohio
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Toledo. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. University of Toledo is a fairly large school located in Toledo, Ohio that handed out 19 masters’s parks and rec degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Toledo did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Toledo are $27,067, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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