Recreation Administration at Eastern Illinois University

If you are interested in studying recreation administration, you may want to check out the program at Eastern Illinois University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and has a total student population of 8,626. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students received a bachelor's degree in recreation admin from EIU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Recreation Administration section at the bottom of this page.

EIU Recreation Administration Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Recreation Admin

EIU Recreation Administration Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks recreation admin programs across the country. The following shows how EIU performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The recreation admin major at EIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Recreation Administration. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Recreation Administration Schools	17
Most Popular Recreation Administration Schools	60

Earnings of EIU Recreation Admin Graduates

The median salary of recreation admin students who receive their bachelor's degree at EIU is $33,478. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 4% higher than the national average of $32,052 for all recreation admin bachelor's degree recipients.

Recreation Admin Student Demographics at EIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the recreation admin majors at Eastern Illinois University.

EIU Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Program

Of the 12 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in recreation admin from EIU in 2021, 58% were men and 42% were women.

About 92% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in recreation admin at EIU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a bachelor's in recreation admin.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

EIU also has a doctoral program available in recreation admin. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Health & Physical Education

Careers That Recreation Admin Grads May Go Into

A degree in recreation admin can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Eastern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
General and Operations Managers	122,790	$125,990
Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Supervisors	3,570	$54,340

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.