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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies in Idaho

1 Ranked Colleges
31 Degrees Awarded
$26,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master's in Idaho

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Idaho” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Idaho, there were 310 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,900 and $20,422 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,676 and $37,720 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

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

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Idaho” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Idaho

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Idaho.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies in Idaho

#1

Boise State University

Boise, Idaho
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boise State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Parks & Rec Schools for a Master’s in Idaho. This large school is located in Boise, Idaho, and it awarded 19 masters’s parks and rec degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our idaho master’s degree parks & rec students list, Boise State has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Idaho” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Boise State are $26,566.

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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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