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2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree Schools

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$25,923 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree School for You

Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is the #223 most popular major in the country with 206 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the United States to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for parks and rec students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the United States

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies

#1

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, IA

Our 2023 rankings named University of Northern Iowa the best value school in the United States for parks, recreation and leisure studies students working on their doctor’s degree. UNI is a moderately-sized public school located in the small city of Cedar Falls.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNI are $21,201 per year.

UNI also claimed a spot on our Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at University of Northern Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the small city of Champaign, UIUC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UIUC are $30,862 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UIUC is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools list.

Read full report on Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#3

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Utah helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value parks, recreation and leisure studies schools in the United States. U of U is a very large public school located in the city of Salt Lake City.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at U of U are $25,705 a year.

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Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies by Region

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New England
Rocky Mountains
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Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
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Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education 9,742
Recreation Administration 441
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 35
Outdoor Education 28

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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