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2022 Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

6 Ranked Colleges
196 Degrees Awarded
$13,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 3,605 people earned their degree in recreation administration, making the major the 147th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, recreation administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,523 and had an average of $24,159 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 264 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,775 and $22,539 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 196 recreation administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in recreation administration. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality recreation administration programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the recreation administration program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree recreation admin students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Recreation Administration (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Texas landed the #1 spot on the list. UNT is a large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 63 bachelors’s recreation admin degrees in 2019-2020.

UNT also made our “Best Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for UNT is $8,521 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Recreation Admin students whose families make $0-$30k.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Recreation Administration at UNT

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Southwestern Oklahoma State University is located in Weatherford, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 36 bachelors’s recreation admin degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree recreation admin students whose families make $0-$30k list, SWOSU has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $9,746 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Recreation Admin students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

Read full report on Recreation Administration at Southwestern Oklahoma State University

#3

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. San Marcos, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s recreation admin degrees to 76 students in 2019-2020.

Texas State also made our “Best Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Texas State is $11,125 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Recreation Admin students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Texas State Recreation Administration Report

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. This fairly large school is located in Edmond, Oklahoma, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s recreation admin degrees in 2019-2020.

UCO also made our “Best Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $12,297 for southwest region bachelor’s degree recreation admin students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Central Oklahoma.

Read more about Recreation Administration at University of Central Oklahoma

#5

Oklahoma Baptist University

Shawnee, Oklahoma
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma Baptist University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. OBU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

OBU also made our “Best Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #5. The yearly cost to attend OBU is $18,537 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Recreation Admin students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Recreation Administration at Oklahoma Baptist University

#6 in overall quality

University of the Incarnate Word came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Recreation Admin Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k ranking. University of the Incarnate Word is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in San Antonio, Texas. It awarded 1 bachelors’s recreation admin degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree recreation admin students whose families make $0-$30k list, UIW has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UIW is $21,597 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Recreation Admin students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full University of the Incarnate Word Recreation Administration Report

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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