2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration in North Carolina

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 North Carolina, there were 356 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,403 and $24,594 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 48 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,453 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in North Carolina” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in recreation administration. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in recreation administration.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in North Carolina”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration in North Carolina

1

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina

#11 overall quality in North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in North Carolina list. This fairly large school is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, and it awarded 18 masters’s recreation admin degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of North Carolina at Greensboro Recreation Administration Report

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North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

#5 overall quality in North Carolina

$43,732 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in North Carolina list. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 30 masters’s recreation admin degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Recreation Administration at NC State

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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

• *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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