2023 Most Popular Colleges for Recreation Administration in New Hampshire

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in New Hampshire” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 3,122 people earned their degree in recreation administration, making the major the 163rd most popular in the United States. 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 New Hampshire, there were 97 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,992 and $27,000 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in New Hampshire” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 “Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in New Hampshire” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in New Hampshire

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in New Hampshire”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Recreation Administration in New Hampshire

1

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

#2 overall quality in New Hampshire

$42,868 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,111 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Durham, New Hampshire is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s recreation admin degrees to 76 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Recreation Administration at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

2

New England College
Henniker, New Hampshire

#10 overall quality in New Hampshire

$48,196 Average Early-Career Earnings

$33,512 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Recreation Admin Major in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, New England College landed the #2 spot on the list. Henniker, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s recreation admin degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Recreation Administration at NEC

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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

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