2025 Best Recreation Administration Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
179Recreation Admin Degrees Awarded
$34,812Avg Early-Career Salary
Recreation Administration is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #163 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Recreation Administration Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 179 degrees in recreation administration to qualified students.
Your choice of recreation administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Recreation Administration School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Recreation Administration in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of recreation admin degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of North Texas is a good option for students interested in a degree in recreation administration. UNT is a very large public university located in the city of Denton. A Best Colleges rank of #310 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UNT is a great university overall.
There were about 67 recreation administration students who graduated with this degree at UNT in the most recent data year. Those recreation administration students who get their degree from University of North Texas make $3,742 more than the standard recreation admin graduate.
Texas State University is a good choice for students interested in a degree in recreation administration. Texas State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of San Marcos. This university ranks 16th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were approximately 56 recreation administration students who graduated with this degree at Texas State in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the recreation admin program earn around $32,620 in the first couple years of working.
Southwestern Oklahoma State University is a good choice for students interested in a degree in recreation administration. SWOSU is a small public university located in the remote town of Weatherford. This university ranks 14th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were approximately 23 recreation administration students who graduated with this degree at SWOSU in the most recent year we have data available. Those recreation administration students who get their degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University make $3,694 more than the typical recreation admin student.
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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Your choice of recreation administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Recreation Administration School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
