2023 Best Recreation Administration Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Recreation Admin for a Doctorate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Recreation Administration is the 163rd most popular major in the country with 3,122 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly for Recreation Admin for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in recreation administration. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent recreation administration programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the recreation administration program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly for Recreation Admin for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly for Recreation Admin for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Best Recreation Administration Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, Colorado

1,606 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$10,701 Average GI Bill® Award

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Recreation Admin for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #1 spot on the list. Fort Collins, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s recreation admin degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our doctor’s degree vets studying recreation admin list, Colorado State has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Recreation Administration Doctor’s Degree Schools” ranking.According to our most recent data, Colorado State University - Fort Collins supports 32,428 students, and 1,606 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 1,183 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,701. During this same period, 68 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Colorado State University - Fort Collins Veteran Student Life Report

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Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina

922 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly for Recreation Admin for a Doctorate. Clemson is a large public school situated in Clemson, South Carolina. It awarded 5 doctorate’s recreation admin degrees in 2020-2021.

Clemson also made our “Best Recreation Administration Doctor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 922 of the 26,406 students enrolled at Clemson were GI Bill® students, of which 429 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,920. During this same period, 15 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Clemson offers credit for military training for eligible students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Clemson University]](/colleges/clemson-university/student-life/veterans/)

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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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.