2023 Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

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 “Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” 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 “Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in recreation administration. To top this list, a school must have a successful recreation administration program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. University of North Texas is a large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 20 masters’s recreation admin degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Recreation Administration at UNT

2

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

$41,564 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in San Marcos, Texas, and it awarded 10 masters’s recreation admin degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Recreation Administration at Texas State

3

Stephen F Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stephen F Austin State University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. Nacogdoches, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s recreation admin degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Recreation Administration at Stephen F Austin State University

• Most Popular 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Glen Santy.