2025 Best Recreation Administration Schools in California
1College in California
69Recreation Admin Degrees Awarded
$34,812Avg Early-Career Salary
Recreation Administration isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #163 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
There was only one school in California to review for the 2025 Best Recreation Administration Schools in California ranking.
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 California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Recreation Administration in California
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the recreation admin degree levels they offer.
It's hard to beat Professional Golfers Career College if you want to pursue a degree in recreation administration. Located in the city of Temecula, PGCC is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
After graduation, recreation admin degree recipients usually earn an average of $30,064 at the beginning of their careers.
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.
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