2024 Best Recreation Administration Schools in Michigan
2Colleges in Michigan
48Recreation Admin Degrees Awarded
$26,719Avg Early-Career Salary
When it comes to popularity, recreation administration sits in the middle of the road, ranking #163 out of 395 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Recreation Administration Schools in Michigan ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 48 degrees in recreation administration during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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 Best Recreation Administration Schools in Michigan list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Recreation Administration in Michigan
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the recreation admin degrees they offer, see the list below.
Michigan State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in recreation administration. Michigan State is a very large public university located in the city of East Lansing. A Best Colleges rank of #74 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Michigan State is a great university overall.
There were about 23 recreation administration students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the recreation admin program report average early career income of $26,719.
Central Michigan University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in recreation administration. Located in the distant town of Mount Pleasant, Central Michigan is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were about 10 recreation administration students who graduated with this degree at Central Michigan in the most recent data year.
Western Michigan University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in recreation administration. WMU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Kalamazoo. This university ranks 5th out of 57 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were about 5 recreation administration students who graduated with this degree at WMU in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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