2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region” ranking.

Recreation Administration is the 163rd most popular major in the country with 3,122 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, recreation administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,874 and had an average of $23,610 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 214 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,749 and $21,077 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in recreation administration. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their recreation administration program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree recreation admin students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration in the Southwest Region

1

Scottsdale Community College
Scottsdale, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Scottsdale Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region list. Scottsdale Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Scottsdale, Arizona. It awarded 1 associates’s recreation admin degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Recreation Administration at Scottsdale Community College

2

Arizona Western College
Yuma, Arizona

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona Western College landed the #2 spot on the list. Yuma, Arizona is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s recreation admin degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Recreation Administration at Arizona Western College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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