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Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Schools in New Mexico

2023 Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$16,200 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,236 Avg Salary

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

Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies is the #24 most popular major in New Mexico with 141 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness Schools in New Mexico to help you in your search for the best school for you.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

Best Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies School

$16,200 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of the Southwest the best value school in New Mexico for parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies students. Located in the rural area of Hobbs, USW is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at USW are $16,200 a year. Parks & Rec majors at USW take out an average of $25,051 in student loans while working on their egree.

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

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

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 1,071
Texas 7,380
Oklahoma 1,179

Parks & Rec Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education 67,146
Recreation Administration 3,122
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 3,106
Outdoor Education 265
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 174

Related Major Annual Graduates
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 142,610
Public Administration & Social Service 98,583
Legal Professions 61,055
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 4,477

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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