2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 214 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,749 and $21,077 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in recreation administration. That schools that top this list have a program in recreation administration in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration in the Southwest Region

1

University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

$41,146 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Denton, Texas, this large public school awarded 20 diplomas to qualified masters’s recreation admin students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full UNT Recreation Administration Report

2

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

$41,564 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas State University is located in San Marcos, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 masters’s recreation admin degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Recreation Administration at Texas State University

3

Stephen F Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stephen F Austin State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region list. SFASU is a fairly large public school situated in Nacogdoches, Texas. It awarded 1 masters’s recreation admin degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Recreation Administration at SFASU

• Most Focused Master’s 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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