When it comes to popularity, an associate degree in recreation administration sits in the middle of the road, ranking #161 out of 328 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
There was only one school in California to review for the 2025 Best Recreation Administration Associate Degree Schools in California ranking. If you would like to see more options to choose from, check out the Best Associate Degree Schools in the United States ranking..
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Recreation Administration Associate Degree Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Professional Golfers Career College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in recreation administration. PGCC is a fairly small private for-profit college located in the midsize city of Temecula.
Associate graduates who receive their degree from the recreation admin program earn about $30,064 in the first couple 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).