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2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$17,784 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 3,106 people earned a degree or certificate in parks, recreation and leisure studies, making the major the #169 most popular in the United States.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Graduate Certificate Schools ranking.

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. 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.

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

Check out the parks and rec graduate certificate programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Graduate Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named California State University - Long Beach the best value school in the United States for parks, recreation and leisure studies students working on their graduate certificate. CSULB is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Long Beach.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at CSULB are $17,784 per year.

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Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies by Region

View the Best Value Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies Graduate Certificate Schools for a specific region near you.

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Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 4 majors within the area of study, parks, recreation and leisure studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education 67,146
Recreation Administration 3,122
Outdoor Education 265
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 174

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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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