2022 Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

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 a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,224 people earned their degree in parks, recreation and leisure studies, making the major the 152nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,957 and had an average of $22,487 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 645 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,678 and $27,284 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 parks, recreation and leisure studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great parks, recreation and leisure studies programs and 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 studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree parks & rec students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies in the Southeast Region

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$20,685 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, East Carolina University landed the #1 spot on the list. Greenville, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s parks and rec degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

ECU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at ECU are $20,685, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at East Carolina University

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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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