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2022 Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
3 Degrees Awarded
$28,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains 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. 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 Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Recreation Administration is the 147th most popular major in the country with 3,605 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, recreation administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,523 and had an average of $24,159 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 308 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,000 and $22,313 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,140 and $97,138 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great recreation administration 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 recreation administration program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region doctor’s degree recreation admin students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration (Income $48-$75k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, this large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified doctorate’s recreation admin students in 2019-2020.

Colorado State also made our “Best Recreation Administration Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Colorado State University - Fort Collins are $28,055, 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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