Recreation Administration isn't the most popular master's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #164 in popularity out of 343 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of recreation administration. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 40 master's degrees in recreation administration during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on recreation administration students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of recreation administration students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt recreation administration students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized recreation administration related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for recreation administration students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Recreation Administration Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Recreation Administration Master's Degree Schools in Florida ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in recreation administration has to check out Florida International University. FIU is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Miami.
Soon after graduation, recreation admin master's recipients typically make around $39,858 in the first five 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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
