2022 Best Value Parks Administration Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut

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 Connecticut” 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 Connecticut, there were 56 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 17 parks, recreation and leisure facilities management graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,793 and $40,407 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great parks, recreation and leisure facilities management 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 facilities management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Administration Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Parks Administration Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Parks Administration Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management in Connecticut

#1

Southern Connecticut State University

New Haven, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$26,658 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Connecticut State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Parks Administration Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut. New Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s parks administration degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

SCSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at SCSU are $26,658, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Southern Connecticut State University Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Report

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• 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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