Recreation Administration at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

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

SRU is located in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania and approximately 8,860 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 31 students received a bachelor's degree in recreation admin from SRU.

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.

SRU Recreation Administration Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Recreation Admin
• Master’s Degree in Recreation Admin

Online Classes Are Available at SRU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

SRU does offer online education options in recreation admin for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Master’s Degree

SRU Recreation Administration Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the recreation admin progam at SRU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The recreation admin major at SRU 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
Most Popular Recreation Administration Master’s Degree Schools	6
Best Value Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
	12
	26
Most Focused Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Degree Schools	31

In 2021, 20 students received their master’s degree in recreation admin from SRU. This makes it the #6 most popular school for recreation admin master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of SRU Recreation Admin Graduates

The median salary of recreation admin students who receive their bachelor's degree at SRU is $31,107. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $32,052 for all recreation admin students.

Recreation Admin Student Demographics at SRU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the recreation admin majors at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

SRU Recreation Administration Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 31 recreation admin majors earned their bachelor's degree from SRU. Of these graduates, 45% were men and 55% were women. The typical recreation admin bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at SRU since its program graduates 9% more women than average.

About 84% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in recreation admin at SRU 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 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's in recreation admin.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	26
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

SRU Recreation Administration Master’s Program

Of the 20 students who earned a master's degree in Recreation Administration from SRU in 2020-2021, 60% were men and 40% were women.

Of the students who received a recreation admin master's degree from SRU, 75% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania with a master's in recreation admin.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

SRU 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 PA, the home state for Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
General and Operations Managers	80,160	$133,480
Managers	11,060	$126,290
Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Supervisors	2,780	$52,200

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 Blackngold29 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.