Recreation Administration is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #128 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Arkansas to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of recreation administration. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 37 bachelor'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 bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to recreation administration students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other recreation administration students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt recreation administration students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for recreation administration students working on their bachelor's degree.
The recreation admin school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Recreation Administration Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arkansas.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in recreation administration has to look into Henderson State University. Henderson State University is a small public university located in the distant town of Arkadelphia.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the recreation admin program report average early career income of $29,307.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in recreation administration has to look into Arkansas Tech University. Located in the remote town of Russellville, ATU is a public university with a medium-sized student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the recreation administration program at Arkansas Tech University make $2,883 above the average college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
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).
