2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Parks Administration Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management is the 231st most popular major in the country with 2,937 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 380 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 35 parks, recreation and leisure facilities management graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Parks Administration Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in parks, recreation and leisure facilities management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in parks, recreation and leisure facilities management.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Parks Administration Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management in the Great Lakes Region

1

Western Illinois University
Macomb, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Illinois University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Parks Administration Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Macomb, Illinois, this medium-sized public school handed out 17 degrees to qualified masters’s parks administration students in 2020-2021.

Full Western Illinois University Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Report

2

University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse, Wisconsin

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Parks Administration Major in the Great Lakes Region list. UW - La Crosse is a public institution located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management Report

3

Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Parks Administration Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Michigan University landed the #3 spot on the list. Central Michigan is located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 masters’s parks administration degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Parks, Recreation & Leisure Facilities Management at Central Michigan

• Most Focused 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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