2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration in the Great Lakes Region
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Great Lakes region, there were 403 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,860 and $24,374 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in recreation administration. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality recreation administration programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree recreation admin students.
Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Illinois University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. This medium-sized school is located in Macomb, Illinois, and it awarded 26 masters’s recreation admin degrees in 2019-2020.
WIU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Recreation Administration Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Western Illinois University are $11,996.
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in La Crosse, Wisconsin, this fairly large public school awarded 11 diplomas to qualified masters’s recreation admin students in 2019-2020.
UW - La Crosse also took the #1 spot in our “Best Recreation Administration Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Wisconsin - La Crosse are $20,038, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
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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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