2025 Best Recreation Administration Schools in Kentucky
2Colleges in Kentucky
100Recreation 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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Recreation Administration Schools in Kentucky ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 100 degrees in recreation administration to qualified students.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Recreation Administration Schools in Kentucky ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Recreation Administration in Kentucky
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.
It's hard to beat Western Kentucky University if you want to pursue a degree in recreation administration. Located in the city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public university with a large student population.
Recreation Administration degree recipients from Western Kentucky University receive an earnings boost of about $8,306 over the average income of recreation administration graduates.
Eastern Kentucky University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in recreation administration. Eastern is a fairly large public university located in the town of Richmond.
Graduates who receive their degree from the recreation admin program make an average of $30,330 in the first couple years of their career.
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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