2022 Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” 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 Southeast region, there were 1,622 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,692 and $25,637 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in recreation administration. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent recreation administration programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the recreation administration program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree recreation admin students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration (Income $75-$110k) in the Southeast Region

#1

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$28,999 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s recreation admin degrees in 2019-2020.

NC State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Recreation Administration Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at North Carolina State University are $28,999, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Recreation Administration at NC State

#2

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$23,246 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Clemson University is located in Clemson, South Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 14 doctorate’s recreation admin degrees to qualified students.

Clemson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Recreation Administration Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Clemson are $23,246, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Clemson University Recreation Administration Report

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration (Income $75-$110k)

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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