2025 Best Recreation Administration Schools in Texas
2Colleges in Texas
130Recreation Admin Degrees Awarded
$34,812Avg Early-Career Salary
When it comes to popularity, recreation administration sits in the middle of the road, ranking #163 out of 395 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Recreation Administration Schools in Texas ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 130 degrees in recreation administration to qualified students.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Recreation Administration Schools in Texas list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Recreation Administration in Texas
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the recreation admin degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of North Texas is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in recreation administration. Located in the city of Denton, UNT is a public university with a very large student population.
Degree recipients from the recreation administration major at University of North Texas get $3,742 more than the standard graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Texas State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in recreation administration. Located in the city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public university with a very large student population.
After graduating, recreation admin degree recipients generally make around $32,620 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.
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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