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2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$11,819 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$41,687 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, 23 degrees and certificates were awarded to parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students who went to a Delaware college or university. This makes it the #13 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Master's Degree Schools in Delaware to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Delaware to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for parks and rec students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware

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

Best Delaware Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness

Our 2023 rankings named Delaware State University the best value school in Delaware for parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students working on their master’s degree. Located in the small city of Dover, Del State is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Del State are $5,510 a year.

Del State not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Delaware is a great value for parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students working on their master’s degree. UD is a very large public school located in the suburb of Newark.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UD are $18,128 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UD is ranked #1 for overall quality for parks and rec in Delaware.

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#3

Wesley College

Dover, DE

Out of the 3 schools in Delaware that were part of this year’s ranking, Wesley College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Dover, Wesley College is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

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Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 327
Pennsylvania 610
Maryland 32
New Jersey 79
District of Columbia 213

Parks & Rec Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education 9,742
Recreation Administration 441
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 206
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 35
Outdoor Education 28

Majors Similar to Parks & Rec

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Administration & Social Service 53,252
Legal Professions 45,189
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 13,045
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 1,613

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to NPS Photo/Zurbuch.

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